political unconscious

p291
It must not cease to practice this essentially negative hermeneutic function but must also seek, through and beyond this demonstration of the instrumental function of a given cultural object, to project its simultaneously Utopian power as the symbolic affirmation of a specific historical and class form of collective unity.
p296
alternative formulations must be proposed, in which an instrumental analyze is coordinated with a collective-associational or communal reading of culture, or in which a functional method for describing cultural texts is articulated within an anticipatory one.

p289 all ideology in the strongest sense, including the most exclusive forms of ruling-class consciousness just as much as that of oppositional or oppressed classes—is in its very nature Utopian.

p291 The achieved collectivity or organic group of whatever kind—oppressors fully as much as oppressed—is Utopian not in itself, but only insofar as all such collectivities are themselves figures for the ultimate concrete collective life  of an achieved Utopian or classless society.