Mirror And Subject—the Lacanian Factor In Althusser's Theory Of The Subject

The most innovative theory in Althusser's Philosophy is his Ideology Theory based on the Subject,which has the greatest impact on post-modern culture.And it is inseparable from Althusser's Reference to Lacan's Psychoanalytic Theory that makes his philosophy still booming in later ages.As early as 1949,Lacan put forward the dissimilated Subject Theory in the form of I in his article The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience.It also uses the knowledge in Psychology,Mimicry,Dialectics,and Phenomenology to demonstrate this alienation,to illustrate the fate of the Subject constructed under Ideology in a scientific and innovative way,and to show us the inevitability of it.At the same time,through the critique of Existentialism and Nihilism represented by Sartre,the nature of bourgeois ideology is revealed,which has a clear ideological and critical significance.It is the reference to Lacan's Theory that reveals to us how individuals are constructed as subjects in a series of Imaginary Heteromorphic Identification under a the bourgeois ideology and the Subject's Mechanism of the Automatic Surrender in the ideological cultural construction of the bourgeoisie.Althusser's elaboration of the Subject not only criticized the Humanistic Marxism at that time,but also created an outdated Ideology theory.Furthermore,in the current Economic globalization environment,it also has criticized and inspired people who are still trapped in the Capitalism in a profound way.