Ideology and Mtyh
İDEOLOJİ VE MİT

Author : -Mehmet Fatih ÜNAL
Number of pages : 164-177

Abstract

It is necessary to understand the concept of “ideology” in order to comprehend how human thought is shaped or steered. This concept, a means of domination over man until contemporary periods, has been regarded as a natural consequence of language-thought relationship since 1960s. For contemporary thinkers such as Roland Barthes, ideology is not only a useful means. For him, a sign is designed to express the truth around us. However, when this sign is used to carry (signifier) another meaning (signified), then we have myth. Myth, emerged as a possibility of language, helps ideologies penetrate into the truth and even replace the truth. In this study, we are going to try to present how ideology is defined in the course of history and how it penetrates into the truth as mentioned above.

Keywords

Ideology, Myth, Sign, Signifier, Signified, Roland Barthes, Karl Marx.

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