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The Unhappy consciousness is the the historically circumscribed, internally contradictory, and relentlessly (self-)divided male subjectivity constituted over the course of bourgeois culture-- in the period that can be broadly termed 'modernity.

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Unhappy consciousness is basically 19th European enlightened bourgeois man (not woman) who has, according to hegel, attained this 'intermediate' stage of subjectivity.

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