ALIENATION, a separation of a person's affections from an object of former attachment [n]
The state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved
Loss or lack of sympathy; estrangement
(in Marxist theory) A condition of workers in a capitalist economy, resulting from a lack of identity with the products of their labor and a sense of being controlled or exploited
A state of depersonalization or loss of identity in which the self seems unreal, thought to be caused by difficulties in relating to society and the resulting prolonged inhibition of emotion
A type of faulty recognition in which familiar situations or people appear unfamiliar
An effect, sought by some dramatists, whereby the audience remains objective and does not identify with the actors