(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality |
| emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness |
| (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine |