Liberating perception of oppression arises only through praxis, not reflection alone

Evidence

The social I of the invaded person, like every social I, is formed in the socio-cultural relations of the social stucture, and therefore reflects the duality of the invaded culture. This duality (which was described earlier) explains why invaded and dominated individuals, at a certain moment of their existential experience, almost “adhere” to the oppressor Thou. The oppressed I must break with this near adhesion to the oppressor Thou, drawing away from the latter in order to see him more objectively, at which point she critically recognizes herself to be in contradiction with the oppressor. In so doing, he “considers” as a dehumanizing reality the structure in which he is being oppressed. This qualitative change in the perception of the world can only be achieved in the praxis. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 489

Categorization

• DEFINE: Specifies that the qualitative shift in self-perception is only attainable through praxis — the precise mechanism the reader needs for a concrete redesign.
• XREF: connects to: Identifying the causal chains of one’s oppression is itself freeing. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 506; Standpoint knowledge of the oppressed is achieved through struggle, not automatic — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1376