The oppressed carry an internalized image of the oppressor producing fatalism

Evidence

Conversion to the people requires a profound rebirth. Those who undergo it must take on a new form of existence; they can no longer remain as they were. Only through comradeship with the oppressed can the converts understand their characteristic ways of living and behaving, which in diverse moments reflect the structure of domination. One of these characteristics is the previously mentioned existential duality of the oppressed, who are at the same time themselves and the oppressor whose image they have internalized. Accordingly, until they concretely “discover” their oppressor and in turn their own consciousness, they nearly always express fatalistic attitudes towards their situation. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 148

Categorization

• DEFINE: This passage defines the ‘existential duality’ concept — key vocabulary for the redesign.
• XREF: connects to: The oppressed’s hatred of life fuels recurring puritanical violence; The oppressor is himself enslaved to the image women uphold. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1971