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What does ressentiment mean?

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Noun
  1. (obsolete) Resentment. [17th-18th c.]
  2. (psychology) A sense of resentment arising from suppressed feelings of envy and hatred, often leading to a frustrated sense of inferiority that may lead to various social repercussions. [from 19th c.]
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It is no easy thing to refer to ressentiment without touching on the composite aspects the term conjures up.
History offers us an infinite array of examples of major and minor conflicts born of ressentiment.
Our goal is to change the structures that generate injustice and ressentiment, and not confine ourselves to looking for a scapegoat.
To paraphrase René Descartes, we could almost say that ressentiment is the most widely shared thing in the world.
We will only achieve this if we abandon current governance, the source of inequalities and exclusion, hemmed in and eroded by ressentiment.
However, European integration is not enough to drown out all existing ressentiment, far from it.

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