What is "alienated"

Usage examples of "alienated".

Whether one is a Freudian or not, this is still the most accurate and succinct summary of all forms of uncovering psychotherapy, and it simply points to an expansion of ego, an expansion of I-ness, into a higher and wider identity that integrates previously alienated processes.

But with the separation of the physiosphere and the biosphere (due to their two different arrows of time), the links in the entire Chain began to fall into alienated and seemingly unrelated spheresdead matter versus vital body versus disembodied mind.

But as a part, it is in some sense alienated, set apart, or disconnected from those contexts that are beyond its own perception.

For the ego's problem was that during its formative growth, where it should have transcended but included its lower-level drives (such as sex and aggression), it transcended but repressed them, split them off, alienated themone of the prerogatives of a higher-level structure with its greater relative autonomy, but a prerogative, we have seen, that is bought only and always at the price of pathology.

Thus the cure: regression in service of a higher reintegrationa regression that allows evolution to move forward more harmoniously by healing and wholing a previously alienated holon.

For example, many theorists, looking with justifiable alarm at the repressions and alienations that often accompanied the Machine Age, maintain that we should never have gone past farming, and there then follows a lovely and wonderful eulogizing of the glories of the "non-mechanized" and "nondehumanizing" agrarian societies, where few humans were alienated from the products of their own labor and the "Great Mother" ruled in peaceful and holistic happiness.

We really should never have gone past gorillas, who at least don't deliberately sacrifice their own or engage in renegade warfare, where slavery is nonexistent and no animal is alienated from its own labors.

Even though Freud doesn't see the Great Circle of Ascent and Descent, he of course makes use of what small segment of it he does understand: in psychoanalytic therapy, one engages in "regression in service of ego"that is, one descends back into a lower level that was alienated and split off by fear and anxiety (by Phobos), reintegrates that level by embracing it with love and acceptance (Agape), and thus releases that lower level from being a regressive pull, releases it from being in the grips of Thanatos, and allows it to rejoin the ongoing march of a higher identity and a wider love of others (Eros).

But if alienated Nature appears as ego versus nature, then in which direction are we to find the real Nature: in the direction of the ego, or in the direction of nature?

Any differentiation was taken to be the sign, not of a newly emerging integration, but of a lost paradise, a sign of a fracture, a sign that a prior "union" was being torn asunder into alienated parts and parcels.

That culture (and the rational-ego) can indeed repress and dissociate natural/libidinal impulses is true enough, and those alienated impulses need to be recontacted, freed from the cultural repressions, and reintegrated into the psyche (regression in service of the ego).

And the cure does involve, as Roszak indicates, a "recontacting" of the alienated dimensions, that is, a recontacting of the biosphere.

Since the biosphere/Gaia has indeed been dissociated, I agree that part of the cure is "derepression of the shadow"that is, recontacting the lower structure that has been alienated and distorted.

Men and women, caught in the subject/object duality, are thus alienated from Source and Summitand thus alienated from the Alland it is only in overcoming duality and existential alienation that men and women can find genuine happiness.

The only thing the acorn actually unifies is its own cellular components, and the oak continues to do this or it would simply die, it would not limp into the future "alienated".