OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 50453

false consciousness

Meanings (ES + gloss)
falsa conciencia
A faulty understanding of the true character of social processes due to ideology.
If the ugliness in American politics is all, or almost all, about the influence of big money, then working-class voters who support the right are victims of false consciousness.
The author is less inclined than Jung to treat freedom as an ideological illusion or false consciousness.
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