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Méconnaissance: In Lacan, applied to Freud's apparent misrecognition of 'everything that the ego neglects'. The term carries with it a suggestion of ideologically derived blindness perhaps bordering on bad faith.

A Concise Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory
Jeremy Hawthorn

(If I could pronounce it, I'd use it regularly).

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