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What Cognitive Dissonance Is

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)

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A human illness.
That needs to be remedied.
Soul out of balance.
Imbalance in the psyche.
It’s cognitive dissonance.

About this poem

Frantz Omar Fanon (1925-1961), a French West Indian physician, psychiatrist, and political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique (today, a Department of France), and a radical Marxist scholar and supporter of Pan-Africanism, is known for having popularized the term “cognitive dissonance” and introducing it more widely into the public domain, a social psychological phenomenon that was conceptualized by Leon Festinger (1919-1989), one of the most well-cited psychologists in modern history. To varying degrees and in various circumstances, all of humanity experiences and displays elements of cognitive dissonance. 

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Written on April 18, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on April 18, 2022

Modified on March 23, 2023

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1995 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s “Dear Mili” Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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