Driving away

Usage examples of alienating.

Their chief importance, and that of the whole left wing of the Labour movement, was the part they played in alienating the middle classes from Socialism.

It was a higher emergence used for altogether rude purposes, turning everything into objects of the monological gaze, and severing, alienating, repressing the rich communions that allowed its agency to function in the first place.

Van der Capellen in particular warned that alienating the Americans could damage trade with them and that it would be quite unwise to offend any further someone of such rectitude and importance as John Adams.

In direct conflict with their instructions from Congress, and at risk of alienating the French, they would ignore Vergennes.

Thus, if remaining stuck in the biosphere results in the borderline/narcissistic conditions, going to the other extreme and alienating the biosphere results directly in the psychoneuroses.

No, culture is primarily nothing but an alienating force that necessarily and nastily separates humans from nature and me from myself.

Modernity's necessary differentiation of the subject from an unreflexive immersion in magico-mythic syncretism must therefore actually be an unresolved birth trauma that is primarily alienating.

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.

And the evolution of that Western mind was not an alienating move away from the Answer, but a series of profound (and heroic and painful) steps heading toward that Answer, the Chaotic Attractor as a future potential that was the Source and the Goal of the entire display, a future potential that became actual in any individual who stepped off the display and into the Abyss, from which the individual was reborn, not from the womb, but from Emptiness itselfand as the entire Kosmos.

It's really strange: the more 'alienating' the situation gets (to use that old-fashioned term), the more intimate it feels.

Even Craig Owens, one of the best, argues that Sherman's images work "to expose the identification of the self with an image as its dispossession," and that they force upon the viewer "the urgent necessity of making a distinction" between actual women and the "alienating identifications" imposed upon them by the "false mirror" of mass media.

There is no knowing just how much the Socialist movement has lost by alienating the literary intelligentsia.