Dislocation can be interpreted in many ways. Here are the official dictionary definitions:
- The act or process of displacing or the state of being displaced; disruption
- Medicine; the state or condition of being dislocated
- Chemistry; a line, plane or region in which there is a discontinuity in the regularity of a crystal lattice
- Geology; a less common word for "fault"
- An event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
- The act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
Some of my own thoughts/ ideas on what dislocation means:
I think that dislocation is whenever something that has previously been connected or together, has fallen apart or been lost. Even if to some extent, the dislocation has been "mended" (especially in an emotional/ mental sense) damage still remains, and therefore the dislocation or disruption remains.
Although I think that when we first hear the word "dislocation" we automatically think of it in medical terms- a dislocated shoulder- it mainly concerns itself with the emotional and mental state of people.
We can also think of the physical action of being dislocated- for example physically being lost or without home
Other words that I would use to describe dislocation would be lost, disrupted, broken and disconnected.
From this, some of my ideas for this theme are:
- Mental health- the way in which the sufferer must deal with parts of their mind being dislocated or disrupted, and as a result of this, becoming disconnected and withdrawn from the world around them
- Homelessness- the physical action of being disconnected from a house and their family
- Older People- dementia- how when we grow old we can become dislocated from our past as our memories become clouded
- Dislocation within families- divorce/ separation
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