Alienation may refer to:
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''Alienation'' (album), an upcoming 2025 album by Three Days Grace
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"Alienation" (''Mork & Mindy''), a 1981 television episode
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Alienation (property law)
In property law, alienation is the voluntary act of an owner of some property to convey or transfer the property to another. Alienability is the quality of being alienable, i.e., the capacity for a piece of property or a property right to be s ...
, the legal transfer of title of ownership to another party
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"Alienation" (speech), an inaugural address by Jimmy Reid as Rector of the University of Glasgow
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''Alienation'' (video game), a 2016 PlayStation 4 video game
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Marx's theory of alienation
Karl Marx's theory of alienation describes the separation and estrangement of people from their work, their wider world, their human nature, and their selves. Alienation is a consequence of the division of labour in a capitalist society, wher ...
, the separation of things that naturally belong together, or antagonism between those who are properly in harmony
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Social alienation
Social alienation is a person's feeling of disconnection from a group whether friends, family, or wider society with which the individual has an affiliation. Such alienation has been described as "a condition in social relationships reflected b ...
, an individual's estrangement from society
See also
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Alien Nation (disambiguation)
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Alienability (disambiguation)
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Alienation effect
The distancing effect, also translated as alienation effect ( or ''V-Effekt''), is a concept in performing arts credited to German playwright Bertolt Brecht.
Brecht first used the term in his essay "Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting" published ...
, an audience's inability to identify with a character in a performance, as an intended consequence of the actor's interpretation of the script
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Alienation of affection(s), a legal term whereby a third party is blamed for the breakdown of a personal relationship
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Parental alienation
Parental alienation is a theorized process through which a child becomes estranged from one parent as the result of the psychological manipulation of another parent. The child's estrangement may manifest itself as fear, disrespect or hostility tow ...
, a process through which a child becomes estranged from a parent as the result of the psychological manipulation of another parent
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Parental alienation syndrome
Parental alienation syndrome (PAS) is a term introduced by child psychiatrist Richard Gardner in 1985 to describe signs and symptoms he believed to be exhibited by children who have been alienated from one parent through manipulation by the ot ...
, the theory that a set of behaviors in a child who displays extreme but unwarranted fear, disrespect or hostility towards a parent can be used to establish that the child's reaction was caused by the other parent
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