Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements are gratefully made to the editors of the following books and journals, where these essays first appeared: Journal of Critical Realism for ‘Educating the Educators: Critical Realism and the Ideological Unconscious’ (Journal of Critical Realism, 12, 4 (2013), 443–78) and for ‘On the Radical Historicity of Literature: Althusser versus Bhaskar’ (Journal of Critical Realism, 15, 2 (2016), 142–69); Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies for ‘Ideologies of the Spanish Transition Revisited: Juan Huarte de San Juan, Juan Carlos Rodríguez, and Noam Chomsky’ (Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 34, 2 (2004), 309–43); Oxford University Press for ‘Juan Carlos Rodríguez and Michel Foucault: Discourse, Ideology and the Unconscious’ (Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication and Critical Studies, Oxford, 2018); and Rethinking Marxism for ‘The Psychoanalytic Paradox and Capitalist Exploitation: Slavoj Žižek and Juan Carlos Rodríguez’ (Rethinking Marxism, 31, 2 (2019), 194–221). ‘Explorations of the Political/Ideological Unconscious: Fredric Jameson and Juan Carlos Rodríguez’ first appeared in English in Mediations 32, 1 (2018), 71–94. This is a slightly adapted form of ‘Exploraciones del inconsciente político/ideológico: Fredric Jameson y Juan Carlos Rodríguez’, which appeared in Pensar desde abajo, 5 (2016), 193–224.
In gathering these articles together in a single volume, a certain amount of repetition has proved unavoidable. While the most obvious redundancies have been removed, I came to consider, after mature reflection, that a periodic restatement of theoretical positions contributed positively to the flow of the narrative. Accordingly, I have chosen to leave each contribution more or less as it stands, correcting only minor inaccuracies and stylistic infelicities.
Thanks must go to my good friend and colleague over many years, Professor Lou Charnon Deutsch, and to my wife, Susan Read, for their critical support and encouragement throughout my obsessive dedication to the present project. The moment is appropriate to acknowledge the influence upon me of Michael Sprinker, whose exemplary presence cast a bright light over my years at Stony Brook, New York.