What Is Symptomatic Reading?

Todd McGowan: What were Altusier's main contributions to Marxism and as a sort of side question what is symptomatic reading? Todd McGowan: I also saw kind of looking through some of Altusier’s mini works that he has a book on Rousseau that I'm particularly interested in trying to read. He wrote a memoir of his life while in the psych ward after the murder of his wife and before his death which will be very interesting to try to read as well so yeah a lot going on a huge influence and really is operating at a crucial time politically in the middle of the of the 20th century responding to all of the two moat that came before it