Alienation

Alienation may refer to:

• Alienation (property law), the legal transfer of title of ownership to another party
• "Alienation", the medical term for splitting apart of the faculties of the mind
• Social alienation, the individual subject's estrangement from its community, society, or world
• Marx's theory of alienation, the separation of things that naturally belong together, or antagonism between things that are properly in harmony
• Alienation effect, a theatrical and cinematic device by which the audience is "alienated" from a play or film
• Parental alienation or parental alienation syndrome, hostility between a child and its parent

See also

• Alienability (disambiguation)