PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Giordano, Chiara
TI  - Juan Carlos Rodríguez's theorization of the ideologicalunconscious: A line of escape between Marxism, psychoanalysis, and literary studies
DP  - 2018 Aug 1
TA  - Romanica Olomucensia
PG  - 111--124
VI  - 30
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/ro.2018.007
IS  - 18034136
AB  - According to the critic of ideology and literary theorist Juan Carlos Rodríguez - whose main lines will be analysed in this article - the ideological level is one of the three instances that, along with the political and economic levels, defines all social formation. Rodriguez's triadic model, then, is opposed to the classic dichotomy between the base and superstructure of traditional Marxism, according to which the superstructure is the phantasmagorical and fetishized reflection of the material base. Thus understood, ideology ceases to be synonymous with self-deception and false consciousness to become an ideological unconscious, in other words, the very form of construction and interpellation of subjectivities under certain social relations of production. The ideological unconscious is the "I-am": an historical "I-am" from which all other discourses and practices, including literary texts, are articulated (never in a mechanical, transparent, and homogeneous fashion). But what is the place of literary works in relation to the ideological humus from which they germinate? What role does literature play in the unconscious and structurally contradictory framework of social relations? These questions will be answered on the basis of Rodríguez's Marxist theory, its Althusserian origins, and its numerous points of convergence with Lacanian psychoanalysis, and at the same time a hermeneutical and methodological approach will be offered that allows the complexity of the subject that occupies us, i.e., the connection between a literary text and the ideological unconscious, to be assumed.