False consciousness follows on from the Freudian notion of repression,.
But false consciousness is contrary to the growth and maturing of a person. It is contrary to what the philosophers call freedom. It is contrary to our best vision of what it is to be a human being.’
It is Culture that creates our diagnostic categories such as 'repression' but that does not mean all diagnostic categories are equal.
If you are a secularised soul, you are greatly diminished if you allow yourself to be shaped by 'culture', the mores of the day, or other peoples' weltanschauung.
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