PHIL 1107 Lecture 18: Bartkey

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Avery welch philosophy/gender week 9 3/21/16-3/25/16. Oppression is not just political, economic, but psychological: each form of oppression supports the others, psychological oppression is systematic and institutionalized, fanon"s psychic alienation . The estrangement or separating of a person from some of the essential attributes of personhood. Autonomy, denial of subjectivity, self-reflection and cultural expression: the psychologically oppressed become their own oppressors . Fragmentation: splitting into the true and false parts of a person. Mystification: obscure the cause of psychological oppression. Stereotyping: psychologically oppressive: the object of a stereotype may come to believe it herself. This is a threat to self-determination" or authentic choice of self". This is because my real" self is shadowed by an alternate self, a truncated and inferior self". So, since it is hard enough" to determine oneself anyway, it is even harder with the alternate conception of myself that is dragging down one"s self-esteem.

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