单词 | self-alienation |
释义 | self-alienationn. Philosophy and Social Sciences. 1. The process of separating or distancing oneself from one's own nature, feelings, or activities; the state or condition resulting from this process; alienation or estrangement of the self. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > self-alienation self-alienation1648 self-dissociation1893 alienation1926 1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia xxi. 388 Nor [is] the affection ever diminished by an incessant issuing it self out upon the object, but doth rather acquire by this perpetual Self-alienation. 1794 Hircarrah 4 Feb. Whether..a general power of self-alienation [should] be allowed,..it is not for an humble observer to decide. 1829 Morning Chron. 25 Dec. Her health had been so much impaired as to affect her state of mind; and some notes which she had written..show a degree of self-alienation. 1883 E. Caird Hegel ix. 197 Hegel's assertion..that ‘Nature is the extreme self-alienation (Entaüsserung) of spirit, in which it yet remains one with itself’. 1906 J. B. Baillie Outl. Idealistic Constr. Experience vii. 242 For this Self-alienation is itself regarded as necessary, as the very expression of free self-consciousness. 1964 S. M. Jourard Transparent Self ii. 11 It often comes to pass..that our public selves become so estranged from our real selves that the net consequence is self-alienation. 2007 Grey Room Summer 20 Their exchange frames Erika's auto-mutilation not as [a] symptom of self-alienation but rather as a self-reference to the body. 2. In Marxist theory: a condition of workers in a capitalist economy, resulting from a lack of identity with the products of their labour and a sense of being controlled or exploited; = alienation n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > social ethics > [noun] > Marxist philosophy and its adherents dialectic1891 alienation1900 neo-Marxist1902 neo-Marxism1918 self-alienation1926 1926 H. J. Stenning tr. K. Marx Sel. Ess. 13 The immediate task of philosophy, when enlisted in the service of history, is to unmask human self-alienation in its unholy shape. 1938 K. Korsch Marx ii. xi. 158 The actual ‘self-alienation’ of the wage-labourer. 1977 A. Giddens Stud. in Social & Polit. Theory v. 199 For Marx..money is the epitome of human self-alienation under capitalism, since it reduces all human qualities to quantitative values of exchange. 2013 Res. Afr. Lit. 44 4 However much is produced under capitalism, the worker, in some sense, never produces anything and always remains paralyzed in self-alienation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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