Althusser

[heikki raudaskoski]

Vaska wrote:
>More than attempt; did her in quite successfully and then went on to write a
>chillingly lucid [mad?] account of her murder, to boot.  No Alzheimer's
>there, as far as I know.  Kristeva has the episode in _The Samurai_, where
>her psychoanalyst character comments on the murder in a suitably icy aside,
>muttering something about "not the therapy I'd have prescribed."  

Sometimes I've been wondering: to which extent, after all, did Althusser's
violent mental instability (together with his coolly antisubjectivistic
philosophy - theory after Auschwitz?) stem from his term as a "subject" in a
Nazi concentration camp?

Heikki