Alienation From The Self, By Karl Marx

The self is our experience of a distinct, real, personal identity that is separate and different from all other people. Sociologists look at both the individual and society to gain a sense of where the self comes from. Most believe the self is created and modified through interaction over the course of a lifetime. Self becomes very important in today’s world because it gives us a sense of existence. According to Karl Marx, self is very important he states that due advent of capitalism we have lost our sense of self. He gives theory of Alienation, that describes the estrangement of people from aspects of their self being as a consequence of living in a society of stratified social classes. The alienation from the self is a consequence of being a mechanistic part of a social class,

He says that how we develop taste overtime from childhood and how we look at certain things is fixed. There are neural pathways to see the world. Everyone has different experiences and no one sees same thing. “ We don 't see art the way it is”. How do we read something is also different. If we were to read something that was written several hundred years ago, we can 't understand what any why it was written. This is because the circumstances as to why it was written is different from then and now. Cushman refers to narcissism. Everything only exist because of social construction. everything that is innate need to have social construction in order for them to have meaning. He further talks about empty self, free from character and personality. He says that our self is free from religion and community, which is responsible in creating who we are. character is what associated with community or it is what you take form that culture or community. Since the world is rapidly chaining, we need to change and empty ourself of that character and take up new values that are relevant today. It means emptying see form traditional