Sentence examples for psychic dislocation from inspiring English sources
The psychic dislocation that results for the vast majority of those strivers, those that don't make it, is the focus of "Sugar".
His psychic dislocation is rendered through quick, alarming cuts to the surrounding landscape, suggesting that the physical world itself has become mute and threatening.
Manual by Daren King Fetishism, psychic dislocation, unhealthy sexual obsession – Manual isn't an easy book to warm to, but it will linger in the mind afterwards.
Unmoored by the stardom he had so desperately chased, and by his attendant addiction, Bowie's restless imagination had led him into a dark place of psychic dislocation.
Father and son feature in "The Ulysses Syndrome," which sets out to explore the cross-cultural identities shared across the generations and the psychic dislocation of transience; fine fodder for Mr. Bokaer's rigorous, acute imagination.
The play's other female characters are insightfully inhabited by the lovely Ms. Dizzia, whose wild fluctuations between starchy propriety and unbridled emotionalism signify her character's psychic dislocation; Ms. Bernstine, who brings a quiet dignity to her performance as the wet nurse; and Ms. Stetson as the crisply efficient but also sympathetic doctor's assistant.
The physical and psychic dislocations caused by combat and the trouble that soldiers encounter in reintegrating into their families and finding new purpose in their lives are potentially powerful themes.
There's music in Allen's head, and there's a lot of noise getting in the way; the sound of the ocean returns, later in the film, to disturb the viewers' own comfortable contemplation and to realize, through pure sensation, the psychic dislocations that are Allen's constant companions.
This dislocation — psychic as well as geographic — comes with inevitable lonelinesses, small and large.
But for me, driving in Sri Lanka continually brought fresh dislocations, both psychic and physical.
