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n. - Representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of qualities or individuality; (existentialism) a loss of identity; Emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own reality;

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  • Bifo gives a rigorous analysis of just how these effects are manifesting, through an attention to what he calls the depersonalisation and cellularisation of time: 'cells...
  • Continent, the process of the dehumanisation and the depersonalisation of the African people had gone furthest.
  • During the period of remand, the patient displayed periods of nocturnal anxiety, withdrawal, depersonalisation and apparent response to hallucinations.
  • Oliver Tambo sought to explain the systematic effort at the depersonalisation and dehumanisation of the African by those who would be our absolute Milan, when he told...
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