The themes of the existential crisis have been central in taking up their work different domains human experience and exhibit force departure from so-called standardized norms values a society. These taken by many authors African American origin. This paper attempts to represent explain theme alienation through an in-depth analysis Angelou’s I Know Why Caged Bird Sings. identity, gender, consci...

The widespread disaffection of students from school is manifested in academic failure, indifference, and defiance. These problems can be alleviated, I argue, when an authority structure is developed that combines three components – freedom, power, and legitimacy. Authority understood as either power or freedom is apt to subvert students’ school attachment even while attempting to strengthen it;...

“Further Considerations of Alienation” attempts to expand upon an earlier essay entitled “Merleau-Ponty and a Reconsideration of Alienation.” From the point of view of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy, this new essay considers modernist rationality and the postmodernist free play of language as forms of alienation. The essay attempts to show that Merleau-Ponty joins the company of Marx, Lukács, Haber...

The process of self destruction in suicidal behavior for borderline patients seems to have a breaking function of filiation which has to live in mortify parental desire- or non-desire, both of them reflect a lack of investment. It tries to reach a part of the adolescent's body, figuration place of filial alienation, neither in a death desire, but in will rebirth.