To explore the positive and negative sides of the manliness myth, Fincher had only to propose a single character, a man with a "disassociated" personality (Brad Pitt's enraged Tyler Durden is the alter ego of Edward Norton's unnamed, milquetoast protagonist).
She was startled by the disassociated, scattershot approach of the process, as when she was asked to record dozens of geographic factoids.
"I'm used to living in a disassociated universe," she said.
The contexts of the two circumstances are unique, so what seems like contradictory behavior is just the application of similar reasoning upon two disassociated situations.
We have become increasingly disassociated and estranged from the patterns of life and death, uncomfortable with the messiness of our own humanity, aging and, ultimately, mortality.
Such formal playfulness and variety is found throughout the book – a celebrity interview peppered with subversive footnotes; episodes narrated in the second person or first person plural, to conjure the disassociated mindset of a depressed college student or the camaraderie of the teenage band – but always used to increase its emotional power.
I can look at my body in a disassociated manner and see it instrumentally.
"I'm pretty cross, actually," says Cash. "I've disassociated myself from what he's done, and I'm hoping to have a proper discussion with him".
Some ministers seem happy to remain inconspicuous and thus disassociated from his travails.
The members of the band he used to play with, Moxy Fruvous, publicly disassociated themselves from the former star.
Because these stars are so cool, spectral lines of molecules such as titanium oxide, which would be disassociated in hotter stars, are quite prominent.
