35. Étienne Balibar, 'Politics and Truth: The Vacillation of Ideology, II', in Masses, Classes, Ideas, p. 173.
36. If it is to play this crucial role, the concept of the unconscious is to be conceived in the strictly Freudian sense, as 'trans-individual' -- that is, beyond the ideological opposition of 'individual' and 'collective' unconscious: the subject's unconscious is always grounded in a transferential relationship towards the Other; it is always 'external' with regard to the subject's monadic existence.
37. Balibar, 'Politics and Truth', pp. 173-4.
38. One is usually quick to add that this structure of the community of guilt dominated by the feared--beloved paternal figure of the Leader has been faithfully reproduced in all psychoanalytic organizations, from the International Psychoanalytical Association to Lacan's école freudienne.
39. See Claude Lefort, Democracy and Political Theory, Oxford: Polity Press 1988.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Mapping Ideology. Contributors: Slavoj Žižek - editor. Publisher: Verso. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1994. Page Number: 33.