ALLEGORY AND IDEOLOGY

Fredric Jameson takes on the allegorical form Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal i nvestments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contradictions (which is no t the same as solving them!) The inevitable and welcome conflict of interpretations - a discursive, ideological struggle - therefore needs to be supplemented by an account of this simultaneous processing of multiple meanings, rather than an abandonment to liberal pluralism...[Read more]