In a general and broad way, in our language, alignment will be called the loss of judgment, the madness in which a person enters who has just lost his mental faculties. Meanwhile, the individual who is in this particular situation is called alienated.
Loss of judgment or insanity
When someone is alienated, they feel alien to themselves and their own reality, having built a parallel and imaginary one, which is lived as if it were real, but obviously it is not, and only the environment can realize that abnormal situation.
Psychiatry uses the concept of alienated as a synonym for insane and is one of the medical disciplines that deals especially with the treatment and diagnosis of these cases, which in some situations can be of considerable severity and which will require special treatment to be overcome.
Phenomenon in which the personality is suppressed and becomes controlled by others
On the other hand, the alienation, also known as alienation, turns out to be that phenomenon from which An individual's personality is suppressed, that is, he is stripped of it, controlling him and canceling his free will and from that moment on, making him a person dependent on the interests of the person who alienates him, be it another individual , an organization, or a government, among other alternatives.
Meanwhile, alienation is a non-innate phenomenon, that is, it is not born with it but is arranged by another or by the same person alienated from psychological mechanisms.
Types of alienations: individual and social
It is possible to distinguish between two types of alienations, depending on the level at which they occur: individual or social.
In the case of the first, it is a mental alienation which is normally characterized by the nullification of the individual personality; confusion persists when reasoning, there is an incoherence in thinking, hallucinatory symptoms appear.
The person who is going through this state is taught, or failing that, he teaches his subconscious from an intentional morbid process in which he comes to believe certain situations. Among the most severe cases of this type, it can lead to a complete absence of social relationships and harmful and very aggressive behavior, either towards oneself and the environment.
And on his side, the social alienation it is closely linked to social manipulation, political manipulation, oppression and cultural nullification. In this case, the individual or the community, transform their conscience to such an extent that it becomes contradictory to what is normally expected of them.
Meanwhile, there are four well-defined types of social alienation: religious (A resignation to a certain dogma persists that of course will frustrate individual development), politics (the oppression and domination of a government is allowed with silence), economical (both the media and the products that the individual himself produces dominate him) and consumerist (We are slaves of what advertising tells us, that is, we buy only what it tells us, without first rationally evaluating the usefulness or need we have for the product in question. Happiness happens only by consuming the product that the advertising tells us. and not for the benefits that it can bring us).
Social alienation and the influence of the Industrial Revolution
After the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century, the social changes that took place and the rise of the bourgeoisie in those times, within that framework of social modifications, the concept of social alienation appears, in the terms mentioned above.
Man again feels alienated not by monarchical absolutism that restricted his freedoms but by his employers and peers who abuse him.
The proletariat, for example, will feel alienated by the pressure it suffers from the capitalist, whom it must please with its work so that it maximizes its profits.
They have the burden of doing work that is often forced and heavy, which does not pay them any benefit but on the contrary isolates them and impoverishes them, while on the other side, their bosses become richer at their expense.
This is broadly what communism proposed and against that it fought tirelessly.
Marx argued that capitalism turned the human being into a thing, an object that always depends on the laws of the market. The individual is a mere commodity, which serves while making benefits and will be discarded when it does not produce them accordingly.
