ABSTRACT
Theoretical investigations into the nature and function of ideology have been dominated for the past decade and a half by the work of Louis Althusser, indeed by one essay by this French philosopher-‘Ideology and ideological state apparatuses’.1 It is not my purpose to rehearse here the numerous critiques of Althusser’s position. I shall concentrate instead on offering an alternative, using arguments derived from deconstructive philosophy, Marxist Autonomy theory, and contemporary psychoanalysis.
