The need for continued research into the affinity for what is unalive is still an important task for students of psychoanalysis and psychiatry.
So what if you make a million bucks a week if you hate getting out of bed, hate your work, feel indifferent to your product or service and, in general, you are unmotivated, unalive and… bored?
Under the influence or not, Williams seems somehow unalive, unaware of how to make prose sing, or people breathe.
Thus the personal or professional concern of scientists for values is in many ways flawed by being based on unalive, mechanical values.
Erich Fromm's 1955 tome The Sane Society signaled the debut of the one-dimensional marketing character -- a robotic all-consuming creature who is well-fed, well-entertained, but passive, unalive, and lacking in feeling.
I found the length of my arm of a card catalogue on the topic ‘nithe neamhbheo agus neacha nach bhfuil ann’ (‘unalive beings and things that don't exist ’).
One comes out knowing, and caring about a panoply of new friends and acquaintances, living and dead and unalive.
In reviewing an Iggy Pop concert in the March 28, 1977 issue of Village Voice, he praised Pop for his willingness to risk his personal safety on stage: ‘This is a person who feels profoundly unalive, or, conversely, so rawly alive, and so imprisoned by it, that all feeling is perceived as pain…’