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Res-Publica : Revista Lusófona de Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais ; Saberemos o que é a Europa? Talvez cada um de nós tenha a sua própria concepção que também guia as nossas actividades práticas. Mas estamos um pouco no escuro quando se trata de nos orientarmos no que é, apesar de tudo, um campo complexo. Poderíamos mesmo dizer que há muitas concepções de Europa - Irei discutir algumas e estas diferem bastante umas das outras. Para muitos de nós, teremos que admiti-lo, a Europa e a União Europeia são realidades cujos contornos estão longe de ser claros. A nossa confusão acerca da União Europeia é, em parte, alimentada por uma falta de clareza acerca do próprio conceito de Europa . Como e quando emergiu este conceito? É claro que este não é um conceito ou uma ideia única e que não existe uma resposta adequada e satisfatória para tal pergunta. ; Do we know what Europe is? Each of us probably has his own picture, which also guides us in practical activity. But we are in something of a fog when it comes to orienting ourselves in what is, after all, a particularly complex field. There are, we might even say, innumerable conceptions of Europe - I shall talk about some of them. And they differ greatly from one another. For many of us, we must now admit, Europe and the European Union are realities whose contours are however far from clear. Our confusion about the European Union is fed in part by a lack of clarity about the concept of Europe itself. How and when did this concept emerge? Of course there is not one single such concept or idea. And there is no one certain and satisfying answer to the question.

Interprets Louis Althusser's essay, "Ideologie et appareils ideologiques d'etat" ([Ideology and Ideological Apparatuses of the State] 1970) as an attempt to answer the question of how it is possible for capitalist relations to exist. It is contended here that this essay represents Althusser's effort to correct his earlier theorizing on ideology in two ways: to move away from a notion of the general social function ideology, & to reconstruct the basis for the claim concerning the illusory character of ideology. In these attempts Althusser was moved to reconsider his notion of the subject. Althusser's reconceived subject is compared to the psychoanalytic rendering of the subject proposed by Jacques Lacan (1977). It is noted that both Lacan & Althusser appeal to the work of Sigmund Freud &, though Althusser's account is held as preferable to Lacan's to the extent that it includes a space for culture in the formation of subjectivity, it is asserted that Althusser's appeal to Freud puts him in a difficult position with regard to the possibility of a truly liberating socialist future: either he must accept that ideology disappears in this future, & thus the unconscious disappears, or he must accept that true emancipation is an illusion. 25 References. D. M. Smith

An analysis of the significance of the state in the face of progressive internationalization.