A state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently

Usage examples of dissociation.

But if we question Classical thought at the level of what, archaeologically, made it possible, we perceive that the dissociation of the sign and resemblance in the early seventeenth century caused these new forms -probability, analysis, combination, and universal language system - to emerge, not as successive themes engendering one another or driving one another out, but as a single network of necessities.

And in reconstructing the powerful experience of the lost two years between the third and the fifth grades Sybil had made clear that this had not been the first dissociation.

Because of the very nature of evolution, that type of dissociation can occur at any and all stages of growth and development.

That this differentiation went too far into dissociation is a topic we will discuss in chapters 12 and 13.

I let the gap grow to about a dozen metres and pretended complete dissociation from the figure ahead of me.

However well that does indeed describe aspects of mythic dissociation, it has precisely nothing to do with one's own transpersonal potentials, vertical potentials that if they aren't actualized are merely projected horizontally into utterly futile schemes to turn this finite world into a Utopian world of infinite wonderment: an infinite above collapses into an infinite ahead, and whether that infinite ahead be endless scientific progress or boundless material possessions or political utopianisms as ultimate salvation, they are all fundamentally ways of fussing about in the finite looking for the infinite, and doing irreparable harm to the finite world in the process by placing demands upon it which it could never fulfill.

Note that he maintains that distinguishing tame and wild necessarily alienates subject and object (these types of "necessities" are very common when every differentiation is read as a dissociation, because every branch of the oak must then be seen as a different type of violation of the acorn).

Transcends and includes: which is precisely why differentiation, which allows transcendence, can go too far into dissociation, which denies the dependence upon the lower and thus alienates it (the real pathology).

Tarnas is clearly aware of the necessary movement of modernity's "separation," but because he doesn't distinguish differentiation and dissociation, he is most taken with modernity in its alienating modes.

Each of those dissociations and alienationsof the transpersonal, the interpersonal, and the prepersonalwould severely curtail its cherished freedom.

Thus, modernity's specific (fulcrum-5) boundaries involved the standard dynamic of growth from a previous relatively undifferentiated state (in this case, mythic-syncretism) to differentiated (the Big Three) to integrated (still in progress), an ordeal that can go pathological as fusion or failure to differentiate (on the one hand) or dissociation and hyperdifferentiation (on the other).

Rather, the dissociations in the F-5 boundaries of modernity could anchor themselves in the "existential" subphase of F-0 (subphase 2) in a way that would not happen in premodern times because there were no collective F-5 boundaries in premodernity to do the anchoring, even though they went through essentially the same perinatal birth process.

In subsequent volumes, I trace a large part of this dissociation and resultant emphasis on the Big One (of instrumental/objectivistic rationality) to the strong influence of the techno-economic base of industrialization and the machine mentality (which is similar to, but not quite the same as, the more common analysis that traces it to capitalism): the techno-economic base supported instrumental-purposive activities, and in a way all out of proportion to the instrumental-purposive rationality that did in fact build it: a positive feedback loop that sent calculative rationality spinning out of control, precisely in the avowed purpose of gaining control.

But allowing to the scheme some coherence and some duration, it appears to me that if, after a while, the confiscation should not be found sufficient to support the paper coinage (as I am morally certain it will not), then, instead of cementing, it will add infinitely to the dissociation, distraction, and confusion of these confederate republics, both with relation to each other and to the several parts within themselves.

Because differentiation and dissociation are now so thoroughly confused, culture itself becomes, not also a mode of emergent transformation that discloses deeper and wider worlds, but simply and primarily a distorting force that conceals and contorts both a pure nature and my truly pristine self.