Definition of

Alienation

Alienation

Alienation is linked to alienation.

Alienation is the action and effect of alienating or alienating oneself . This verb refers to transmitting control of something to someone, taking someone out of their mind , producing astonishment, depriving oneself of something or deviating from the relationship one had with someone.

Alienation, therefore, can be linked to distraction or lack of attention. The concept is also associated with madness , that is, the mental state of someone who cannot be responsible for their actions due to lack of judgment.

Alienation and alienation

The notion of alienation helps explain what is meant by alienation. It is the phenomenon or circumstance that deprives the individual of his own personality and that nullifies his free will. The alienated (or alienated) subject cannot act on his own but is dominated by what a person or an organization orders. Ultimately, mental alienation can occur due to the pressure an individual feels from the mandates of society at large.

There are various types of alienation that can have causes ranging from alcoholism to a fairly serious head injury or the abuse of toxic substances of all kinds, mainly drugs.

A mental disturbance

Alienation is not innate, but arises as a mental disturbance or a pathological form of adaptation to reality. Stress , the frenetic pace of modern life and overwork are some of the causes that can produce the subject's alienation, which is reflected in a state of perplexity, incoherence, confusion in reasoning and psycho-motor excitement.

The aforementioned circumstances generate a kind of self-alienation (it is the individual himself who reacts in this way when trying to adapt to the stimuli). In other cases, alienation may try to be generated in a third party through training, coaching, and indoctrination (for example, in the case of sects that try to recruit new members).

Justice

The notion of alienation is used in law.

Alienation in law

It is interesting to highlight the fact that in the field of law the term alienation is frequently used during trials that attempt to determine the guilt or innocence of an accused for having committed a serious crime, such as a crime. In this case, we usually talk about temporary mental insanity to try to reflect that the person committed the murder during a time when he was not really aware of what he was doing. In this way, an attempt is made either to ensure that he is not convicted or that the sentence is not so harsh.

Specifically, we can establish that in the aforementioned field, mental insanity is spoken of as a synonym for insanity or as that state, permanent or punctual, in which the person is not at all responsible for the acts they are committing during it.

However, we cannot ignore the fact that this term is also used in Law to refer to a completely different issue. In that case, it is used to determine what the transfer of a real right is, the legal relationship that exists between a thing and a person, from one property to another. Specifically, it can affect an entire asset or, on the contrary, a part of it.