Political subjectivity

Political subjectivity is a term used to indicate the deeply embedded nature of

An early (1981) book by Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act,^[3] can be considered one of the forerunners of the notion of political subjectivity. In his book Jameson attributed what he termed a "political unconscious" to text, asserting that all text has embedded in it, albeit in an implicit form, the encodings of the political history of the environment in which they have been produced. He then proposed “the doctrine of a political unconscious,” as an analytic method for unearthing the hermeneutically repressed political memories of text, and “restoring to the surface of the text the repressed and buried reality of this fundamental history” (p. 20). While Jameson's original theory of the political unconscious was primarily a neo-Marxist approach to literary criticism, later proliferation and interdisciplinary cross-fertilization of theories of subjectivity have greatly expanded Jameson's original ideas to include the range of political, cultural and psychological processes within the framework of political subjectivity.

See also

• Subjectivity
• Intersubjectivity
• Phenomenology (philosophy)
• Phenomenology (psychology)
• Q methodology
• Subject (philosophy)

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