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representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality
according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual - emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness
- (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine
How To Use depersonalisation In A Sentence
- Although I've experienced depersonalisation and derealisation for years, I've only knowingly experienced full dissociative episodes - ie. proper periods of amnesia, losing time Mental Nurse
- Where the religious would tend to personify the Mainframe as a God or as a pantheon of gods each with separate functions, I prefer the mystic's depersonalisation of that, the treatment of it as a non-anthropomorphised deep structure rather than a conscious being. Magic 101
- There are a few disorders of self-awareness, such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, autism, depersonalisation disorder.
- One of the tragedies with the current paradigms in the helping professions is the disdain and depersonalisation from “care-givers” to that people who need personal attendant services or other forms of assistance. Training
- The downside is that the process of putting people into categories leads to depersonalisation.
- It's part of depersonalisation-derealisation disorder, which can be very scary. Times, Sunday Times
- The dialogue participates in this uneasy sense of dislocation, being composed of vocabularies that effect various degrees of depersonalisation.
- The prosecutor will also now not be confronted with the International Committee of the Red Cross's stark conclusions about this programme pdf: "This regime was clearly designed to undermine human dignity and to create a sense of futility by inducing, in many cases, severe physical and mental pain and suffering, with the aim of obtaining compliance and extracting information, resulting in exhaustion, depersonalisation and dehumanisation. George Bush: no escaping torture charges | Katherine Gallagher
- With the depersonalisation of this agency, the paring away of anthropomorphic characteristics, Dick escapes a literalist symbolism of divine and sentient beings to offer us a more realistic picture of this type of memetic entity, not a sentient being as such, but a simulacrum of one, a model and a program running in his imagination. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART THREE
- Extended altruism puts much of traditional war making in question, for it entails refusing to accept hate-based identities and depersonalisation of the official enemy.
