Subjectification and identification processes: ideology and the unconscious

Abstract

The present essay aims at articulating interfaces and frontiers between Discourse Analysis, Lacanian psychoanalysis and Historical Materialism. The focus here is the notion of the subject, taking into account the theoretical contributions by Marx/Lukács relative to the notion of ideology, and also the contributions by Freud/Lacan in relation to the notion of the unconscious. In the notion of the subject, central for Discourse Analysis, a critique is concentrated on idealism and humanism. It is from that subject interpellated by ideology, split by the unconscious and individualized by the State that a theorization is built. It is in relation to that subject understood as a position within discourse that one builds the analyses. Here the concept of subjectivation is incorporated to this reflection, which considers that the subject of discourse comes from and is constituted within and by language.