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“The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.”

Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

“The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks.”

Thinking Firsts Lasts Attention Consciousness Objects Streams Description Rejects Rough

Book:The Principles Of Psychology -

Source: The Principles Of Psychology -

“Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.”

Men World Consciousness Conscious Concepts Men And Women Committed Liberation Rejects Banking Adopting Entirety Pedagogy Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.”

Mind Reason Reality Turns Consciousness Tools Claims Rejects Organs Distortion Absolutism

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.”

Men Humans Country Values Black Consciousness Birth Dignity Rejects Foreigners Human Dignity Value Systems Personal Dignity Black Consciousness

Book:Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa

Source: Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa