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The term alienation which refers to a person's separation from the body was first used in ancient Greece (Temel, et al. Cynicism as a mediator of relations between job stress and work alienation: a study from a developing country--Turkey.
In general, the statement that man is alienated from his species life means that each man is alienated from others, and that each of the others is likewise alienated from human life. The alienated man is not only alienated from other men; he is alienated from the essence of humanity, from his species-being, both in his natural and spiritual qualities. This alienation from the human essence leads to an existential egotism, described by Marx as man's human essence becoming a means for his individual existence.