Prof. OP Budhoila & Dr NK Mehta: Alienation and Isolation
1. Alienation and Isolation
MA & M. Phil/Ph. D. Scholars-English
Prof. O. P. Budholia
&
Dr. Naveen K Mehta
Department of English
Sanchi University of Buddhist-Indic Studies, Barla,
Raisen (MP)
Prof. O. P. Budholia
Dr. Naveen K Mehta
2. Concept of Alienation & Isolation
Concept of alienation involves the psychological and social
ills that an individual carries naturally or inherits as his/her
personality traits from society.
As usual there are three factors that cause the ill of
alienation: Subject, Object and the behavioural norms
between them.
It is the behavioural norm that decides either association or
dissociation between subject and object.
Thus, these reflective variants that cause breaks, splits,
indifference and meaninglessness.
However, the most important out of these is the sense of
emotional distancing, for it creates a psychological Ill
creating a stress and strains in the deeper recesses of
human psyche.
These are the causative effects that bring forth the sense of
3. Concept of Alienation & Isolation
Society breeds certain inner traits of human personality and an
individual from time immemorial shapes his/her workability and
relational bonds. And so he/she thinks of creating the movement and
vision of his/her life.
As a matter of fact, when an individual is compelled to withdraw forcibly
the instincts and behavioural development, he feels compressed due to
the reduction in the normal sensory and social input.
For example If one makes an depth comparison between the two
cultures: the East and the West.
Usually, the psychological traits in the Eastern culture can be levelled
as introversion of human thinking while the cultural traits of the Western
society brings the concept of extroversion into operations.
Thus, the cultural traits being developed by an individual shapes his
/her temperament; the clash between two temperamental modes brings
forth the clash that remains operative in society; and it thus brings the
syndrome of anxiety, depression, aggression, loneliness creating the
adverse effects on human personality
4. Assignment
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