pseudoliberation
pseudoliberation noun: false liberation; The process or instance of appearing to be liberation while not actually liberating.
Noun
pseudoliberation (countable and uncountable, plural pseudoliberations)
- False liberation; The process or instance of appearing to be liberation while not actually liberating.
- One moment I was ashamed and frightened, another recklessly optimistic. Taboos strangulated me. Psychoanalysts wooed me with pseudoliberations of pseudolibidoes.1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC
- 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...1981, Helm Stierlin, Separating parents and adolescents: individuation in the family
Forms of pseudoliberation
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Origin of pseudoliberation
From pseudo- + liberation.
Questions about pseudoliberation
- What does pseudoliberation mean?
- Pseudoliberation means false liberation; The process or instance of appearing to be liberation while not actually liberating.
- What part of speech is pseudoliberation?
- Pseudoliberation is a noun.
- What is the plural of pseudoliberation?
- The plural of pseudoliberation is pseudoliberations.
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