Oppression must be perceived as a transformable limiting situation, not a closed world.

Evidence

In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit, but as a limiting situation which they can transform. This perception is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for liberation; it must become the motivating force for liberating action. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 116

Categorization

• DEFINE: Key distinction between ‘closed world’ and ‘limiting situation’ — the perceptual shift a redesigned learning situation must deliberately engineer.
• XREF: Directly relevant to the reading purpose: this is the exact target perception any problem-posing redesign must cultivate. — connects to: Extreme oppression could extinguish ontological freedom while leaving biological life — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 213