machine learning and class consciousness
Home Interprelation combines the terms interpellation, interpretation, and relation. It describes both the moment when the mother first interprets an infant’s cry (identified with the drama of the mirror stage, the “you are that”) as well as all subsequent attempts at captation through a master signifier (unary trait). What’s important to note is that an interprelation is *not* just an interpretation. It carries with it a demand. This is the point at which all of the Other’s speech which precedes your birth is represented and, the Other hopes, internalized. If it is not successfully resisted, then the child is inducted into the world of semblants and discourse. The demand is essentially this: to speak and act as though you were X, to lie or to perform X The interprelation is the initial encounter with the S1. One key difference between this and Althusser’s concept of interpellation is that the interprelation is never directed at *you*. It is always directed past you toward a perso...