The process of distancing oneself from one's own feelings or activities, such as may occur in mental illness or as a symptom of emotional distress.
自我疏远
Example sentencesExamples
In constructing themselves specifically as speakers who at once invite and defy the expectations of their auditors, their social alienation becomes only the outward signature of an essential self-alienation.
Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.
Definition of self-alienation in US English:
self-alienation
noun
The process of distancing oneself from one's own feelings or activities, such as may occur in mental illness or as a symptom of emotional distress.
自我疏远
Example sentencesExamples
In constructing themselves specifically as speakers who at once invite and defy the expectations of their auditors, their social alienation becomes only the outward signature of an essential self-alienation.
Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.