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Ideology and Utopia 59
crete members of the group. Thus it follows that the indi· (
vidual can only be considered as the bearer of an ideology)
as long as we deal with that conception of ideology which. I
by definition, is directed more to detached contents than to J
the whole structure of thought, uncovering false ways of)
thought and exposing lies. As soon as the total conception of ~
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asljearers of this ideological thought-syste~,~ a whole. The
aim of the analysis on this level is the reconsYJ!ftion oLth~
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~f the individ~~~. Analyses of ideologies in the particular
sense, making the content of individual thought largely de·
pendent on the interests of the subject, can never achieve
this 1;>asic reconstruction of the whole outlook of a social
group. They can at best reveal the collective psychological
aspects of ideology, or lead to some development of mass ,
psychology, dealing either with the different behaviour of
the individual in the crowd, or with the results of the mass
integration of the psychic experiences of many individuals.f
And although the collective-psychological aspect may very
often approach the problems of the total ideological analysis.
it does not answer its questions exactly. It is one thing to
know how far my attitudes and judgments are influenced
and altered by the co-existence of other human beings, but
it is another thing to know what are the theoretical implicati~.~~_Q.f__mJ-~