You can meet her often, more often than we would like. It is visible in the eyes of the people with whom life brings you. In our publication today, we look at what alienation means. Why and when does it arise, what are the reasons, the main signs of alienation? And what are we trying to protect ourselves from?
Definition of a concept
So, according to the interpretation of dictionaries and encyclopedias, we can say that alienation is a psychological state of a person, which is characterized by the avoidance of any kind of experience, moreover, it includes isolation from interpersonal interactions. And this applies to all spheres of human life. Starting from domestic interactions and ending with friendship and romantic relationships. Alienation is one of the five pathological manifestations of a person’s personality.
To the word "alienation" such synonyms are applicable as indifference, coldness, remoteness, detachment, isolation.
Signs of Alienation
If a person does something at work without enthusiasm, as the saying goes “for show,” without investing any emotions, then he is alienated, that is, shows formalism. This is the first sign. The second is boredom. It is she who becomes the cause of alienation, since, in the opinion of the carrier, he simply has nothing to do.
The meaning of the word "alienation" is easy to understand for someone who lives on "autopilot", the third sign implies that a person disconnects or runs out of life for a smoke break, sleep, play games. In this case, he keeps his distance in relations with people. Feeling is akin to hatred. Alienation is also a feeling of personal lack of freedom, emptiness, loneliness. Sometimes it arises from impotence and the inability to change anything in life. The simplest example that can be given in this situation is an unloved job, which is uninteresting and seems meaningless, but there is simply nowhere to go.
Spheres of Alienation
There are several areas of human life in which he can show the above signs. First, alienation from study. At times, each of us had to see a student who, responding to the seminar, tells the teaching material in a fresh voice. Or, say, a schoolboy who explains his disinterest in the subject with the fact that “this will not be useful to him in life.” Secondly, in some families there may be only the appearance of well-being, but in reality there is no warmth and sincerity, there is only formalism and the repeated monotony. The third area is alienation from work. Unfortunately, this is one of the main areas of human activity, which he is ready to justify by the need to support himself and his family. And finally, the fourth sphere of alienation is from the society in which a person lives. Sometimes, oddly enough, it is precisely once formerly active people who fall into this sphere who aspired to play a significant role in political or public life, but who for some reason are faced with the indifference and inertia of citizens.

Forms of Alienation
So, the significance of alienation will help to understand and more deeply feel such forms of its manifestation as adventurism, nihilism, powerlessness and vegetation. Such, at first glance, different concepts are united by alienation.
It would seem that a tendency to extreme acts or risky pursuits, that is, a craving for adventurism, is one of the forms of alienation. From what? For example, from a family where parents are experiencing, or from a society in which, thanks to modern communication technologies, the young generation, looking at the extreme, itself seeks to repeat what they saw.
Or such a form of alienation as nihilism, which represents a certain conviction in the absence of a meaning in life. Usually this form is associated with irritation, disgust and the desire to see only negative and deny positive. Moreover, such people are able to poison the life of any person, as they seek to impose on others their "black" perception of the world.
Unfortunately, one of the difficult forms of alienation is powerlessness. That is, we can say that the loss of a person’s faith in his ability to influence his own life. And finally, one of the most dangerous forms of alienation is vegetation. This reduction of one’s life only to the satisfaction of necessary physiological needs, for example, to food. Moreover, the vegetative form of alienation is characterized by a whole "bouquet" of such manifestations as boredom, apathy, and longing. A person does not show any activity. This is the most severe form of alienation. It requires help from relatives and friends, it may even be worth resorting to the services of specialists in the field of psychology.