IDEOLOGY AS IDEOLOGY OF THE »OBVIOUS«

Abstract

Authoress deals with the aspect of ideology, which is at the same time its weakest and strongest point, with the appealing on »obvious«, »evident«, where »obvious« allways conceals the point at which the ideology is the most vulnerable. This fact has been already pointed out by Althusser in his analysis of functioning of ideology. Although Althusser tries to think ideology as discourse, his theory of ideology allways oscilates between two points, between ¡reductibility of ideology and the idea of »epistemological cut«, between what is within and what is beyond ideology. At this point, where Althusser is faced with serious difficulties, we can rely on Lacan's theory of four discourses, where discourse of University offers the »mathem« of what is fundamental ideological operation.