Alienation
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Alienation may refer to:
- "Alienation", the legal transfer of title of ownership to another party
- "Alienation", the medical term for splitting apart of the faculties of the mind
- Social alienation, the individual subject's estrangement from its community, society, or world
- Alienation effect, a theatrical and cinematic device by which the audience is "alienated" from a play or film
- Marx's theory of alienation, the separation of things that naturally belong together, or antagonism between things that are properly in harmony
See also
- Alienist, an obsolete term for a psychiatrist who attempts to reintegrate an alienated mind
- Anomie
- Normlessness
- Alien Nation (disambiguation)
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