Once it is worked into a text, all its contradictions and gaps are exposed. It is by giving ideology a determinate form, fixing it within certain fictional limits, that art is able to distance itself from it, thus revealing to us the limits of that ideology. This structure of contradictions may be dominated at any given moment by one or other of the levels, but which level it is is itself ultimately determined by the economic level. Art and ideology- ideology is a system of representation. Textual strategies of containment present themselves as formal patterns.
All interpretation is necessarily transcendent and ideological.
In the end, all we can do is use ideological concepts as a means of transcending ideology. The textual heterogeniety can only be understood only as it relates to social and cultural heterogeniety outside the text. The Dialectic of Sex substitute sex for class as the prime historical determinant, and to present the 'class struggle' as itself a product of the organisation of the biological family unit. In the classical novel, objects only had significance in relation to individuals, but, in the novels of Sartre, Kafka and Robbe-Grillet, the world of objects begins to displace the individual. Art and ideology B. Study the relation between a text and a certain ideology.