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1932 C. F. Atkinson tr. O. Rank Art & Artist xii. 372 The artist..succeeds in changing this purely subjective creative process into an objective one, which means that through ideologizing it he transfers it from his own self to his work.

a1939 O. Rank Beyond Psychol. (1941) i. 45 By idealizing and ideologizing the victorious type of the French Revolution, this German philosopher envisioned a new type of ruler who set out to determine himself and be himself.

1971 A. W. Gouldner Coming Crisis of Western Sociol. 47–8 Every theory and every theorist ideologizes social reality.

1995 Daily Tel. 28 Feb. 21/2 A considerable part of the problem is that the matter has been ideologised. On the one hand are people who wish to deny that the phenomenon exists; on the other hand, there are people who want to see it everywhere.

1932 J. Burnham & P. E. Wheelwright Introd. Philos. Anal. viii. 295 Darwin began the mechanistic approach, setting up the principle he called natural selection, and which his follower, Herbert Spencer, ideologized into the survival of the fittest.

1949 L. Trilling in Amer. Q. 1 1200 Say what we will as critics and teachers trying to defend the province of art from the dogged tendency of our time to ideologize all things into grayness.

1975 New Left Rev. Nov. 15 The national state has been ideologized into ‘nationalism’.

2003 G. E. Fuller Future of Polit. Islam v. 91 Why regional differences can be the source of conflict that later becomes ideologized into primarily religious differences.