Althusser Symptomatic Reading

Symptomatic reading this article concerned with derived from Althusser's creative readings of Karl Marx's classics "The Capital". If we apply symptomatic reading to the field of literary criticism, we find the alienation between literary content and artists' awareness in the literary works, and cause the silence speak. Not only we have to know what the literature works say, but also seek what they do not say, and explore "absence in the presence" of arts, the blank in works, and omission, Thereby finding unconscious structure of realistic ideology in the deepest place. Althusser can be traced to the origin of Lukacs's totality, stressed that the Marx conception of history is the multi-dimensional determinism more than unary economical determinism. Ideology plays the same role with economic factor. Althusser put the literary and art activities among the ideology and science practices, holding this view that literature and the ideology and the science have closely and special relations also maintaining differences with both; but in his mind, the true and great literature is inclined to science transcending ideology. This article starts from "symptomatic reading", oriented to analyzes of the origin and connotation, and then inspect the cases carry on literary and art criticism by using "symptomatic reading" in contemporary era of China. Through to these cases's analysis, this article believed that literature and art Criticism under the "Symptomatic reading" influence is the model in this field in new time of our country, also has provided some beneficial references for immediately the literature and art Criticism domain's literary criticism and the cultural research's argument. At the same time, literature and art Criticism under the "symptom reading" influence also has the revelation to explain some phenomena and questions in the literature and art Criticism domain immediately.