Detach

Detachment may mean:

  • Emotional detachment, in psychology, refers to "inability to connect" or "mental assertiveness"
  • Detachment (philosophy), a philosophical state
  • Detachment (military), a military term
  • Detachment (film), an American film
  • Décollement, a geological term for a zone where rock units are detached from each other
  • Retinal detachment, a disorder of the retina
  • A term used in the United Kingdom for an enclave or exclave

Famous quotes containing the word detach:

    “I am dead against art’s being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author—detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower’s pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl’s lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.”
    —Robert Bresson (b. 1907)