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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Defines nostalgia as:
Longing to return to a place to which one feels emotionally bound or recalls as being better than the present in some way.
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.