The unconscious need for coherence in socialist ideology

The term 'ideology' requires a little more exposition than a one word depth charge. For ‘ideology’ designates a system of representations that offer the subject an imaginary, compelling, sense of reality in which crucial contradictions of self and social order appear resolved. Further Ideology is imaginary not because it is in any sense unreal, but because it gives the subject an image that satisfies an unconscious need for coherence