Louis Althusser’s attempt to remove all Hegelian traces from Marx ultimately resulted in, quite arguably, a limitation for his theory of subjectivity. This limitation, frequently neglected in the literature available on Althusser, includes the lack of the exploration of the impossibility of a full transition of the subject into the Subject. For Althusser, the subject is the individual who becomes interpellated by ideology and the Subject is what is required by ideology. Althusser, however, did not examine the ‘lack’ that always already exists between the subject and the Subject. In the present paper I shall explore this theoretical limitation in Althusser through employing a Hegelian approach. Similarly, a reconsideration of the Althusserian model of the ‘subject/Subject’ in terms of the Hegelian doctrine of the non-identity of ‘the subject/the other’ could be illuminating in investigating the problem of the lack between the subject and the Subject. Furthermore, Althusser employed the concept of the Absolute Subject, which is reminiscent of Hegel’s notion of the Absolute Spirit. The Althusserian model of the ‘subject/ Subject’ needs reconsideration in that the impossibility of the transition of the subject into the Subject can be further analysed through exploring the lacks that exist both in the subject and between the subject and the Subject.
