Alienation

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Alienation may refer to:

Alienation (property law), the legal transfer of title of ownership to another party
Alienation effect, an audience's inability to identify with a character in a performance, as an intended consequence of the actor's interpretation of the script
Marx's theory of alienation, the separation of things that naturally belong together, or antagonism between those who are properly in harmony
Parental alienation, psychological alienation of a child from a parent, especially after divorce, such that the child acts with hostility toward the parent
Parental alienation syndrome, a pattern of parental alienation described by American psychiatrist Richard Gardner in the early 1980s
Social alienation, an individual's estrangement from his community, society, or world

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