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False consciousness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A faulty understanding of the true character of social processes due to ideology. Marxism

    "The author is less inclined than Jung to treat freedom as an ideological illusion or false consciousness."

Etymology

Calque of German falsches Bewusstsein, as used by Friedrich Engels in a letter to Franz Mehring (1893).

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