Iranian Journal of Sociology

Abstract The purpose of present paper is to investigation about Freud's ideas on subjectivity and it’s relation to ideological subject of Althusser. At first, Freud, as a social philosopher, will be scrutinized and then his view will be compared to Althusser's opinion on subject. Ego, in Freud's thought can be interpreted as subject in sociological and philosophical debates. Subject (or Ego), in psychoanalytic view, through defense mechanisms, distorts the reality and the imaginary, and assumes his/herself as an autonomous subject. In this way Althusserian view on subject shows that subject, in imaginary way, assumes his/herself as an autonomous actor. Only under interpellation of ideology the subject can be a language-user subject. This process occurs at an unconsciousness level. Reviewing sociological aspects of Freud’s works on subject, we will show that ego defense mechanisms have characteristics, which ideology uses to distort the reality.