derange

After all, the original Surrealist movement, with its urge to systematically derange the senses, occurred in the wake of the First World War and its horrors.

He then took me into his laboratory and explained to me the uses of his various machines, instructing me as to what I ought to procure and promising me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange their mechanism.

They recruit and derange their followers by dismissing all criticism as partisan.

Tolentino explores these overheated environments and their incentives, and how they derange our sense of ourselves and our values.

As a journalist from Le Point magazine put it: “Il dérange”– “It’s disturbing.”