Althusser [2]

[Vaska]

I've no idea how one could begin to think of your [rhetorical?] question,
Heikki, but well before I came to know about Althusser's mental aberracy, I
often wondered about the relentless antisubjectivism you mention.  There's a
strangely metaphysical quality to it, an effect of that truly ruthless
inexorability of structure and structuration that I associate with
Althusser.  An almost [incipiently?] paranoiac tenor of thought -- which
Bruno Bethelheim was, I think, the first to identify as one of the possible
consequences of a death trauma. 

But "L'Avenir dure longtemps," Althusser's own self-analytical and
self-exonerating book on, among other things, the death/murder of a very
specific "subject," his wife, remains both chilling and monstrous.  Whatever
its etiology.
 
Vaska 
  
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>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?
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>Heikki
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