Premium Content A Doll’s House and the Escape From Ideological Suffocation
By Timothy Sexton - September 02, 2006
Marxist critic Louis Althusser’s fame rests substantially on the basis of his critical theories surrounding his proposition that human beings are interpellated by society to become complicit in propagating the prevailing ideology even when that ideology does not serve their interests. Interpellation basically means turning the individual into a…
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