Louis Althusser71 definitions
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The Abstract (n.) is the domain of theoretic practice whereby the concrete refers largely to reality.
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Causality (n.) is a theater without the author which reflects neither reality (empiricism) nor truth (hegelian dialectic). The object of study is the mechanism which produces the stage effects.
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The Economic base (n.) is the base on which stands the superstructure (which is made up of the law (or the politico-legal state) and ideology.
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An Epistemological break (n.) is the radical break with the whole pattern and frame of reference of a hegelian marx toward the historical materialism of his later work.
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Family (n.) is an ideology tied inextricably with historical materialism. Any psychoanalysis must take this into account.
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Historical materialism (n.) is marx's science of history which althusser claims that he founded after breaking with hegel and the idealist-empiricist philosophical tradition.
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Humanism (n.) is a (flawed) ideology that suggests there is a universal essence of man. Humanism gives rise to the concept of man (or human nature, or the human subject) as an unproblematic and stable center. The idea of man must be abolished.
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Humanism (n.) is an expression of reactionary socialism.
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The Ideological state apparatus (n.) is the complex of institutions such as education system, family, mass media, religious organizations, through which subjects are made and the sate ideology is pushed forward.
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Ideology (n.) is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
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Ideology (n.) is not a set of false beliefs but a complex and contradictory assemblage of social practices through which individuals are transformed into 'subjects'.
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Ideology (n.) is profoundly unconscious and has very little to do with 'consciousness'.
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Ideology (n.) characteristically imposes self-evident facts as self-evident facts.
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Ideology (n.) never says 'I am ideological.' As such, those who are in ideology believe themselves by definition outside ideology.
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Ideology (n.) is that thing which art forces us to see. Art is born of ideology, and bathes in ideology. Thus, art gives us ideology in the way it manifests as 'seeing', 'perceiving', and 'feeling', (which, needless to say, are different from knowing).
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Ideology (n.) transforms human beings into subjects leading them to see themselves as agents.
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Ideology (n.) is the imaginary relationship between individuals to their real conditions of existence.
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Ideology (n.) is the system of the ideas which dominate the mind of a man in a social group.
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Interpretation (n.) is the power of state apparatuses (i.e. Churches, universities, political parties, and trade unions) to constitute subjects which in turn submit to its needs.