Nostalgia Was, in Freud’s Day, an Illness Steeped in the Past. Today, It Can Be a Joyful Emotion That Reframes the Future
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Nostalgia Was, in Freud’s Day, an Illness Steeped in the Past. Today, It Can Be a Joyful Emotion That Reframes the Future
The nostalgia machine
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nostalgia appears to be a longing for a place but is actually a yearning for a different time—the time of our childhood, the slower rhythms of our dreams. In a broader sense, nostalgia is a rebellion against the modern idea of time, the time of history and progress. The nostalgic desires to obliterate history and turn it into private or collective... See more
Nostalgia | Svetlana Boym
Today, researchers describe nostalgia as a frequent, primarily positive, context-specific bittersweet emotion that combines elements of happiness and sadness with a sense of yearning and loss.