deindividuation

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deindividuation

(diːˌɪndɪvɪdjʊˈeɪʃən)
n
(Psychology) psychol the loss of a person's sense of individuality and personal responsibility
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Gascoigne calls this tendency in Abel his "deindividualisation" (Gascoigne 73) of the child.
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While a welcome engagement with dimensions of action that sympathetic observers of social movements have preferred to avoid, my sense is that the 'neo-sect' hypothesis advanced by Peterson focuses too much on the fusional dimensions of intensity that are evident in contemporary forms of action--the core hypothesis is that these are expressions of 'deindividualisation'.
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