Johannes Hofer: The Psychology Of Nostalgia

Because they are something then you can not see it or touch it, but it always twinkle and shining in your memory. We no longer see it surely and clearly. It just marks a good mark in our memory forever. But does those old days such good? We have better science and technology today; We have countless goods in our market;We have better medical care and education today. Why we still love those old days? I think we know the answer. Our feeling about those old days are not just good or better. It look more like a vision then fraud by our memories.This vision does not mean “want”. It look more like someday you meet your first crush, you won’t fall in love with her or him anymore, but you want just talk to her or him.When you meet her or him after so many years, you get a special feeling.This feeling bring you back in time. In the real world you two are having some insignificant chatter.In your memory you sitting at the old school playground. A smiling girl stand in the warm sunlight.She has a bright eyes and long neck. You speak to her with confidence and composure.She looks up into your eyes. Your cheerful mood such as the leaver on the trees,sing with the wind in spring. Your face seem like more handsome than usual.Someday, you willing to do anything for this vision.Someday, I willing to do anything for this vision. Because we know can not go back to that afternoon; we can not sitting at that old school playground again;

The first vocabulary word from the chapter that describes the mood would be remember. The definition of this word would be to think of someone or something. A synonym for this word could be recalled. This word conveys to the mood because Luke’s mother wants him to remember everything that happened from when he was little to now when they were playing board games with each other. This is depressing because she doesn’t want him to leave and she wants to fill him up with memories so he can remember everything they’ve done before. She doesn’t want him to go away from her because all those things they are remembering will end up going away because he will be gone and she will be depressed about that. Adding on, she will probably never see Luke again.

In Hunger of Memory, Richard Rodriguez situates his individual experiences with education in such a way as to expose what he sees as the fallacious logic behind bilingual education and affirmative action. He uses arguments to propagate the systematic problems with such programs. His autobiography explains in great detail the entangling problems all American children face by instituting bilingual programs and affirmative action endorsements.

//Nostalgia- the longing for the past; the current era does not have the same fascination.

“I didn’t think the Twinkie would thrill the way it used to, and it didn’t. But it tasted like memory” In this quote from “Goodbye to My Twinkie Days”, author Bich Minh Nguyen, is describing a sense of nostalgia. Nostalgia, as defined by the Cambridge English dictionary, is a feeling of pleasure and sometimes slight sadness at the same time as an individual thinks about things that happened in the past. This feeling can be evoked through old photographs, food, music, and even literature. Nostalgia provides a temporary relief of present times, which is why people actively seek a feeling of nostalgia.

Memory. According to the Webster Dictionary, memory is “The power or process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and retained especially through associative mechanisms” (Webster Dictionary) Taking that under consideration, imagine if everyone didn’t remember the last time they smiled, their siblings last birthday, or the last really good meal they had. The last time they laughed so hard their ribs hurt, the last time they had so much fun that they couldn’t believe it really even happened. Or the last time they told someone they loved them, before they probably never saw them again. Thats memory, now could they imagine if they didn’t remember any of that anymore, because it was taken away. It was such a long time ago and so

the first man to write a medical description of the disease. He called it "melancholia",

Firstly I'm going to evaluate Psychodynamic Psychology as this is one that I have previous knowledge about. First founded by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) an Austrian Psychologist who linked childhood experience with how it influences us as adults. He described that experiencing something in childhood resulted in similar behaviour as an adult. The Psychodynamic approach believes we have drives which can determine our behaviour and that these drives are shaped in childhood and this is where we develop our personality. The strengths to this approach is that if we get to the core of the problem psychologically and tackle the memory linked to the behaviour, it may change the way we interpret memory into the certain behaviour.

Sigmund Freud was an influential psychoanalyst in the late 18th century to the early 19th century. He made many advances in the field of psychology which have impacted other academic areas such as sociology and social work. In his 1915 paper “Mourning and Melancholia” he connected the normal realm with the pathological. In which he “compared mourning – a normal if painful event from which hardly anyone is spared – with a pathological although very common one: melancholia” (Fiorini et al. 2007). The natural human process is to mourn the loved subject or object when it is lost. Freud explains that grief is the feeling of losing love and once it is fully lost desolation and fear takes its place

In the poem “Bully” by Martin Espada is explaining the time where a person has experienced someone bulling them. It is also explaining many different events that have went on in the past that might be able to tie together many different times where people have felt like they are being bullied. It talks about how the Puerto Rico had invaded Roosevelt with many Spanish speaking children in the hallways watching them. The children are scared for their lives and starting to go bazaar all over the school. In line 2-3 “the Theodore Roosevelt statue is nostalgic” stood out to be the theme because it is where the problem took place. The word “nostalgic” means in my own words to feel sad and viewing something to be sentimental. The things that took

Memory provides a sense of personal identity. Memories that were made from the past create the person that they have become today. It helps to ground judgments and with reasoning. As an illustration, one day a young girl was shopping at the mall with a group of friends and they deiced to steal a cute

No Country for Old Men is a novel that revolves heavily around the theme of nihilism and nostalgia. Main characters, Sheriff Bell and Anton Chigurh represent this immensely throughout the novel.

In the Scott Pilgrim universe time is a central concept. Bryan Lee O’Malley expertly layers the familiar styles of classic videogames, music, and pop culture throughout the series to create nostalgia. The author uses this nostalgia in order to emphasize the importance of the past and show Scott’s inability to grow. As Ryan Lizardi puts it in his essay Scott Pilgrim vs. hegemony: nostalgia, remediation, and heteronormativity, “Scott must deal with his past… his inability to grow up compared with other characters, and…conquer Ramona’s romantic history before they can move on in their relationship,” (Lizardi, ). The intertwining themes of past and immaturity reappear throughout the series through the previously state medium of nostalgia.

  Memories are works of fiction, selective representations of experiences actual or imagined. They provide a framework for creating meaning in one's own life as well as in the lives of others. In Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, memory is a dangerous and debilitating faculty of human consciousness. Sethe endures the tyranny of the self imposed prison of memory. She expresses an insatiable obsession with her memories, with the past. Sethe is compelled to explore and explain an overwhelming sense of yearning, longing, thirst for something beyond herself, her daughter, her Beloved. Though Beloved becomes a physical manifestation of these memories, her will is essentially defined by and tied to the

Modern nostalgia is usually understood as a sentimental longing for familiar surroundings or for a period of time