Alienation

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Alienation is estrangement or splitting apart. The term has specialized meanings in a variety of disciplines.

• In law, "alienation" refers to a transfer of title of 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 sociology and critical social theory as well as continental philosophy more broadly, social alienation refers to the individual subject's estrangement from its community, society, or world.

See also

• Anomie
• Marx's theory of alienation

External links

• Marx's Theory of Alienation by István Mészáros
• AlieNation: A Map Of Despair by CrimethInc

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