Sentence examples similar to self dispossession from inspiring English sources

Given the urgency and severity of our condition - what the Gospels refer to as the "sin of the world" - achieving a just social order involves passing through death, nothingness, turbulence and self-dispossession.

Her later work continues to emphasize the relationality of the self through its dispossession by the very discursive structures that call the self into existence.

The emphasis of the stigmata of dying in baroque art, the insistence on the funereal, the recurrence of appalled eyes in pictorial representation, tend to produce an effect on viewers and to illustrate a theory of passions, by stressing not the sense of a death assumed, but dispossession of self by the body.

And yet if the darkness of the self induces feelings of helplessness and dispossession, psychoanalysis reminds us that it is also the basis of our creativity.

The worst crime of dictatorships is the politics of fear they use to engineer the consent of their people – the slow and steady dispossession of all will to freedom and self-determination.

When the violence ticks up -- when the Palestinians no longer take dispossession and occupation like docile lambs -- Israelis don't self-reflect.

These images of the conscious self's ignorance of what is happening below its surface mirrors the pervasive sense of dispossession so many of us feel as we are carried along the unnavigable networks of contemporary life.

Gordimer plays the lovers off of one another expertly — Julie's self-confidence and Abdu's fragile optimism are like a melody and countermelody — and she explores the problems of dispossession with characteristic subtlety.

For, racism is dispossession.

Beauty and dispossession," he said.

The dispossession of black South Africans accelerated.