sarah spangler's List: Althusser

• It allows for hegemonic power to reproduce itself by obscuring traditional forms of repression and incorporating individuals into the power structure.
• Althusser complicates the relationship between domination and subjugation by introducing the interpellation process, where individuals recognize themselves as subjects through ideology, thus illustrating how subjects can be complicit in their own domination.
• It is important to note that this subjecthood is double: although he is recognized as a social subject by the law, he is also subjugated to the law.

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