Ideologemes remain narrative even when articulated as abstract beliefs.

Evidence

However, our stress here and throughout on the fundamentally narrative character of such ideologemes (even where they seem to be articulated only as abstract conceptual beliefs or values) will offer the advantage of restoring the complexity of the transactions between opinion and protonarrative or libidinal fantasy. Thus we w:i.ll observe, in the case of Balzac, the generation of an overt and constituted ideological and political “value system” out of the operation of an essentially narrative and fantasy dynamic; the chapter on Gissing, on the other hand, will show how an already constituted “narrative paradigm” emits an ideological message in its own right without the mediation of authorial intervention. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1879

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the ideologeme: a narrative unit underlying belief, generating value systems from fantasy dynamics.
• XREF: Connects to the reading purpose of interpretation theory — ideologemes as the middle term between historical text and narrative form. — connects to: Histories and causal narratives persist buried inside the language used to tell them

Broader Connections

• Histories and causal narratives persist buried inside the language used to tell them #corroborates (0.82)