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Alienation
Alienation is estrangement or splitting apart. The term has specialized meanings in a variety of disciplines.
- In law, "alienation" refers to a transfer of titleof ownership to another party.
- In medicine, "alienation" can refer to a splitting apart of the faculties of the mind.
- An "alienist" is an old name for a psychiatrist, who attempts to reintegrate an alienated mind.
- In sociologyand critical social theoryas well as continental philosophymore broadly, social alienation refers to the individual subject's estrangement from its community, society, or world.
- In theatre, the "alienation effect" is a common translation for Bertolt Brecht's Verfremdungseffekt.
See also
- Anomie
- Marx's theory of alienation
External links
- Marx's Theory of Alienationby István Mészáros
- AlieNation: A Map Of Despairby CrimethInc
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