divorce oneself from

I try to make it a policy not to tell anyone how to be a fan, because that’s a visceral process in which it’s perfectly acceptable to divorce oneself from reason.

It was Norman Mailer who attempted to define hipsters in his essay The White Negro as postwar American white generation of rebels, disillusioned by war, who chose to "divorce oneself from society, to exist without roots, to set out on that uncharted journey into the rebellious imperatives of the self".