ABSTRACT:
Approaching ideology requires the ability to go inside the contemporary perspectives of this topic given the phenomenon’s complexity today. We chose the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek as articulator of many concepts about ideology and Althusser’s theory and his concepts of Ideology and its “Ideological State Apparatus”. When reflecting on these concepts we visualize how ideology acts and what are crucial elements. We approach the concepts of positivity of Hegel, dispositif of Foucault and Agamben, and “great Other” of Lacan, as control and alienation of the subject. We seek to better understand the criticism of the “School Ideological Apparatus” and its developments concerning to Brazilian education. We also perceive the limits of Althusser’s thought with regard to the process of subjectivation and dessubjectivation, and about how the education process can be full of events since it can be in permanent transformation because it is never complete, like the subject is never is.
Keywords:
Ideology; ideological apparatus; subjectivation and education