Doug>...<http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/althusse.htm> On November 6, 1980 Althusser killed his wife. In L'Avenir diure Longtemps Althusser tells that he used to massage H�l�ne's neck, but this time he massaged the front of her neck. "Yet I knew she had been strangled. But how?..."
Hate to say it but his autobiographical reflections afterwards (I read a remainder hb.for $4.98) afterwards are quite interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Althusser "The Future Lasts Forever. " I remember at the time Newsweek had a piece on Louis strangling his wife, a hero of the French Resistance. K.S. Karol, (see his book on the Cuban Revolution, "Guerillas in Power, great writer) had a good piece in NLR, "The Tragedy of the Althusser's."
Michael Pugliese