Ideology and Interpellation

1. Here is the house it is green and white it has a red door it is very
pretty here is the family mother father dick and jane live in the
green-and-white house they are very happy
Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is
very pretty. Here is the family. Mother, Father, Dick, and Jane
live in the green-and-white house. They are very happy.
Hereisthehouseitisgreenandwhiteithasareddooritisverypretty
hereisthefamilymotherfatherdickandjaneliveinthegreenandw
hitehousetheyareveryhappy

2. There Is No Ideology without a Subject
There Is No Subject without an Ideology

3. Interpellation
Sumon Chandra Shell
Literature and Cultural Studies
Jagannath University
Major Focuses:
There is no ideology without a subject and no
subject without an ideology.
Ideology interpellates its subjects with ISAs.
Every ideology has a material existence.
No ISA or RSA is pure.

4. Family ISA

5. Interrelation between Religious ISA and RSA

6. • Althusser, Louis. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses." Trans. Ben
Brewster. Critical Theory since 1965. Ed. Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle.
Tallahassee: UP of Florida and Florida State UP, 239-50.
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• Tagore, Rabindranath. “Strir Patra.” Golpo Guccho, Dhaka: Bishwa Sahityo
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