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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 depersonalization In A Sentence
- Teachers may be at greater risk for depersonalization because their daily work life often includes large doses of isolation from their professional peers.
- The result is alienation, depersonalization, and degradation of the human purpose.
- Part of it measures five symptom areas: amnesia, depersonalization, derealization, identity confusion, and identity alteration.
- As a metaphor for the depersonalization of industry, the 1957 film Desk Set pitted humanity against automation as the central quandary of modern civilization.
- Getting information from a live person suits me fine, but, with the increasing depersonalization of communications involving commerce, with the endless message menus, I wonder just how much longer that will be possible. Being Connected « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
- Police's burnout is an extremely reaction to prolonged work stress, which includes a psychological syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization , and reduced personal accomplishment.
- *** Looked up, among other psychiatric terms, depersonalization and derealization. June 29th, 2007
- The Beatles wanted to turn away from the comfortable and reassuring familiarity that is the essence of pop music and stardom, and instead confront their audience with strangeness and a kind of depersonalization.
- The patient's mental status was marked by confusion, hostility, paranoia, agitation, and depersonalization.
- The mean depersonalization score for New Zealand teachers was significantly lower than for their US counterparts, reflecting a low degree of burnout.
