Pseudoliberation

Quick meaning: Pseudoliberation is a noun meaning False liberation; The process or instance of appearing to be liberation while not actually liberating.

Meaning

False liberation; The process or instance of appearing to be liberation while not actually liberating.

Example Sentences

He understood the male desire for escape, and his movies are a kind of “man's movie” not unlike the old women's pictures that gave women a form of pseudoliberation and lots of terrific clothes and furniture to ogle.

In such reconciliation of doing and undergoing, liberation becomes mutual, in contrast to the one-sided pseudoliberation of the revolutionary who, in his moment of triumph, turns into vengeful counteroppressor and thereby perpetuates a negative mutuality; rather, a positive mutuality through which both parties gain a new awareness of, and freedom for, each other, is needed.

Viewing instinctual liberation as a purely individual process is as paradoxical as attempting to "save" a wild animal by removing it from its habitat: in both cases, foregrounding the individual and ignoring the context ensures that the liberation is a pseudoliberation into an industrialist arena rather than an authentic articulation of individual structures into a sympathetic natural space.

Word Forms

• pseudoliberations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pseudoinnocence, pseudolaw, pseudologic, pseudomartyrdom, pseudogovernment, pseudofact.

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