ENGL 101W Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Louis Althusser
11 Apr 2016
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You stopped in last week, mr. durden. (158) There isn"t a me and a you, anymore i think you"ve gured that out. (164) Subjectivity: to be an i is always to be subject to forces outside of our control, both internal to the self and external: the unconscious. Desires, thoughts, feelings, memories, that we are not aware of but shape our behaviour. As a projection of the narrator"s unconscious: anger, sexuality, violence, etc. Represents the unacceptable impulses the narrator must repress or sublimate to be a member of society. As object of desire (social desire hegemonic masculinity; sexual desire, etc) Here, i"m not sure if tyler is my dream. Aligned with unconscious messages (spliced frames: tyler as a projection of demonic masculinity. Unacceptable form of masculinity within mainstream corporate culture. Marla is to blame i know all of this: the gun, the anarchy, the explosion is really about marla singer (14)
