be alienated from

“Individuals,” Havel reasons in his 1978 essay “The Power of the Powerless,” “can be alienated from themselves only because there is something in them to alienate. The terrain of this violation is their authentic existence. Living the truth is thus woven directly into the texture of living a lie.”

Over 70 percent of Africans still reside in rural areas and continue to be alienated from development.

Anchorwomen may be alienated from one another, but they are TV-married to their TV-husbands, bound to their bosses, and beholden to their networks.

From her, we learned what it could mean to be alienated from the past, or traumatized into new and freakish modes of sight, and we learned just how total an experience a haunting—a memory or “re-memory”—really is.

From her, we learned what it could mean to be alienated from the past, or traumatized into new and freakish modes of sight, and we learned just how total an experience a haunting—a memory or “re-memory”—really is.