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.^ Nostalgia describes a longing for the past, often in idealized form.- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The term 'Nostalgia' comes from two ancient Greek words; nostos, meaning homecoming, and algos, meaning pain, and it is a longing for a past time.- Nostalgia! Classics, Remember the way it was? The way it use to be? 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC nostalgia.homestead.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ And whilst it may not be 100% healthy to dwell on a melancholic and often skewed version of the past, in the spirit of escapism, nostalgia is undeniably good for the soul.- Nostalgia at its Best - Francis Frith 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.francisfrith.com [Source type: General]
[1] .^ In 1688 the Swiss doctor Johannes Hofer published a tract in which, after considering the terms nostomania and philopatridomania , he settles on a combination of the Greek words nostos and algos to describe the pain resulting from the desire to return to one’s home (381).- ijcs #5 - history and the politics of nostalgia - marcos piason natali 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.uiowa.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ The term 'Nostalgia' comes from two ancient Greek words; nostos, meaning homecoming, and algos, meaning pain, and it is a longing for a past time.- Nostalgia! Classics, Remember the way it was? The way it use to be? 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC nostalgia.homestead.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The word is made up of two Greek roots ( νόστος = nostos = returning home, and άλγος = algos = pain/longing), to refer to "the pain a sick person feels because he wishes to return to his native land, and fears never to see it again".- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[1]
.^ Well, so much for "the good old days!"
^ Those were the good old days—good, old and cold.- Idaho Mountain Express: Nostalgia - December 18, 2009 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.mtexpress.com [Source type: General]
^ The good old days .- nostalgia Articles, Posts, Blogs, Videos - Technorati 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC technorati.com [Source type: General]
.^ You ever have one of those moments where suddenly you realize that something from your childhood is insanely messed up?- nostalgia « Ration Reality 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC rationreality.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
As a medical condition
.^ The term nostalgia was actually introduced by the Swiss physician Johannes Hofer (1688/1934) to refer to the adverse psychological and physiological symptoms displayed by Swiss mercenaries who plied their trade on foreign shores.- Nostalgia: What, When, and Why? : Mixing Memory 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC scienceblogs.com [Source type: Academic]
^ In 1688 the Swiss doctor Johannes Hofer published a tract in which, after considering the terms nostomania and philopatridomania , he settles on a combination of the Greek words nostos and algos to describe the pain resulting from the desire to return to one’s home (381).- ijcs #5 - history and the politics of nostalgia - marcos piason natali 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.uiowa.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ From the yearning for home in The Odyssey to Johannes Hofers 1688 Medical Dissertation on Nostalgia to the present, nostalgia has been connected to notions of loss and cure.- ijcs #5 - nostalgia - introduction - sean scanlan 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.uiowa.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Hofer introduced
nostalgia or
mal du pays "
homesickness" for the condition also known as
mal du Suisse "Swiss illness" or
Schweizerheimweh "Swiss homesickness", because of its frequent occurrence in
Swiss mercenaries who in the plains of lowlands of France or Italy were pining for their native mountain landscapes. English
homesickness is a
loan translation of
nostalgia.
.^ Cases resulting in death were known and soldiers were sometimes successfully treated by being discharged and sent home.- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.
.^ Receiving a diagnosis was, however, generally regarded as an insult.- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
In
1787 Robert Hamilton (
1749-
1830) described a case of a soldier suffering from nostalgia, who received sensitive and successful treatment:
- "In the year 1781, while I lay in barracks at Tin mouth in the north of .^ "In the year 1781, while I lay in barracks at Tin mouth in the north of England , a recruit who had lately joined the regiment,...was returned in sick list, with a message from his captain, requesting I would take him into the hospital.
- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ If you have any favorite Chili pepper songs you would like to hear live we are taking requests.- Nostalgia Grille and Lounge en Música MySpace – Transmisión gratuita de MP3s, Fotos & Videos Musicales 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.myspace.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ If you can send any information that would help us, would you please send an e-mail to myself and my mother's address who has been copied into this e-mail that I have sent to you.
.^ He had only been a few months a soldier; was young, handsome, and well-made for the service; but a melancholy hung over his countenance, and wanness preyed on his cheeks.- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Skiing always reminds me of being really young and going up with my parents, Sacramento is only an hour from the Sierras so we’d get up a few times a year.- ISO50 - The Blog of Scott Hansen » Random Nostalgia 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC blog.iso50.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Every few meters or so there hung a bowler hat-shaped “bell waterer” made of red plastic that was well-nigh indestructible — try though we might.- Nostalgia | ISRAELITY 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC israelity.com [Source type: General]
.^ He complained of a universal weakness, but no fixed pain; a noise in his ears, and giddiness of his head....As there were little obvious symptoms of fever, I did not well know what to make of the case...Some weeks passed with little alteration...excepting that he was evidently become more meager.- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The battle system for the airship is roughly the same as it is for regular party battles, but there is a little more strategy involved.- Nostalgia Review for the Nintendo DS at Video Game Talk 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.videogametalk.com [Source type: General]
^ Either way, there are some festive fetes, punk rock riots and buzzworthy delights coming to our neck o' the woods this week.- nostalgia coverage by SFist 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC sfist.com [Source type: General]
.^ He scarcely took any nourishment...became indolent...He was put on a course of strengthening medicines; wine was allowed him.- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
All proved ineffectual. .^ He had now been in the hospital three months, and was quite emaciated, and like one in the last stage of consumption...- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ We’d like to get in the one last weekend that people were expecting and the forecast is looking good for the next week.
^ In celebration of the movie's 22nd anniversary, which will take place about three months from now, here's a few more observations on Dirty Dancing : .- NOGOODFORME.COM > style + pop culture > yr ultimate fashion mixtape > Nostalgia Archives 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC nogoodforme.filmstills.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ On making my morning visit, and inquiring, as usual, of his rest at the nurse, she happened to mention the strong notions he had got in his head, she said, of home, and of his friends.- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I seem to remember competing with my friend Rima to see who could make the end most pointy before it broke.
^ HOW AWESOME IS THAT? I really really want it so I can reenact that scene from "Big" with my friends (or, more likely, make a new friend based on his or her willingness to reenact that scene from "Big" with me.- Lindsayism.com : nostalgia 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.lindsayism.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ What he was able to speak was constantly on this topic.- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ I honestly never heard of this one before.
^ This I had never heard of before...He had talked in the same style, it seems, less or more, ever since he came into the hospital.- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The very things that made marriage more satisfying, and increasingly more fair to women, are the same things that have made marriage less stable.- Nostalgia as Ideology | The American Prospect 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.prospect.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ I went immediately up to him, and introduced the subject; and from the alacrity with which he resumed it..- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "Creative Consultant: Joseph Barbera" That just means they went up to him everyday and asked, "Is this destroying your creation?- The Nostalgia Critic - Wikiquote 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ I found it a theme which much affected him.- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ He asked me, with earnestness, if I would let him go home.- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Yet when I’m there and someone asks me if I’m going home I imediately think of my parents house.- Lot 49 » Nostalgia 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC lot49.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He was too honest and let the herd run roughshod over him, but I believe he would have been a better leader than Harper ever will be.- Nostalgia - Inkless Wells - Macleans.ca 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www2.macleans.ca [Source type: General]
.^ I pointed out to him how unfit he was, from his weakness to undertake such a journey [he was a Welchman] till once he was better; but promised him, assuredly, without farther hesitation, that as soon as he was able he should have six weeks to go home.- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ We are at a point once again where there are a lot of amazing tools and techniques out there that are just being applied to the same old problems, over and over again.- Nostalgia - Laughing Meme 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC laughingmeme.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ And: a church without a neighborhood , two very different campus leaders , and whether you should go to grad school .- Bwog » nostalgia 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC bwog.net [Source type: General]
.^ He revived at the very thought of it...- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
His appetite soon mended; and I saw in less than a week, evident signs of recovery."
By the
1850s nostalgia was losing its status as a particular disease and coming to be seen rather as a symptom or stage of a pathological process.
.^ It was considered as a form of melancholia and a predisposing condition among suicides.- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Nostalgia was, however, still diagnosed among soldiers as late as the American Civil War .- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ A never-to-be-repeated benefit, a show of the most complete Winchester collection ever, along with Dale Krinn's Civil War and Native American memorabilia.- NOSTALGIA, one of Our Tentative Times e-zines 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC our.tentativetimes.net [Source type: General]
^ Read the original p ost: The American Spectator : Tinseltown Nostalgia tags: adopted, adopted-country, emphasis, individual, optimism, powerful-interests, the-value, two-wars .- The American Spectator : Tinseltown Nostalgia 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC spectator.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
. By the
1870s interest in nostalgia as a medical category had all but vanished.
^ Tags: bars , nostalgia 17 September 2007 @ 1:53 PM · 10 comments .- Bwog » nostalgia 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC bwog.net [Source type: General]
^ Thus the word nostalgia was born, in a text claiming that a properly scientific term was lacking in order to accurately identify a condition that Hofer insisted was a clinical entity and, as such, was above all of medical interest.- ijcs #5 - history and the politics of nostalgia - marcos piason natali 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.uiowa.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Tuesday, September 4, 2007 I Wanted to See All of the News From Today September 4th, 2007, 3:48 pm -- created August 31, 2007 .- Rhizome | ArtBase 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC rhizome.org [Source type: General]
Nostalgia was still being recognised in both the second and first world wars especially noted by the American armed forces, great lengths were taken to study and understand the condition to stem the tide of troops leaving the front in droves (see century of the self-BBC Documentary)
As a description
.^ Too often in Chrono Trigger do I press the A button too quickly in an attempt to attack before the enemy does, and then discover I should've done something different.
The resulting emotion can vary from happiness to sorrow.
.^ You never feel like you're having to battle every step, but you also don't go so long without battles that you get bored.
^ I am starting out with some of the more common images available that will consist of old images of post cards going back to almost the the turn of the 20th century.
^ Personally, we feel the list could use some more additions.- Nostalgia -- Joystiq [Nintendo] 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC nintendo.joystiq.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Romanticism
.^ Scheuchzer applied this theory to account for the supposedly high incidence of nostalgia among Swiss mercenaries who left their Alpine homes to fight on the plains of Europe.- Nostalgia: What, When, and Why? : Mixing Memory 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC scienceblogs.com [Source type: Academic]
The 1767
Dictionnaire de Musique by
Jean-Jacques Rousseau claims that Swiss mercenaries were threatened with severe punishment to prevent them from singing their Swiss songs. It became somewhat of a
topos in Romantic literature, and figures in the poem
Der Schweizer by
Achim von Arnim (1805) and in
Clemens Brentano's
Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1809) as well as in the opera
Le Chalet by
Adolphe Charles Adam (1834) which was performed for
Queen Victoria under the title
The Swiss Cottage.
.^ Nostalgia is set in the 19th century.- Nostalgia (2009) on Nintendo DS 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC ds.ign.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- GameStats: Nostalgia Cheats, Reviews, News 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.gamestats.com [Source type: General]
.^ Long ago and far away .- RTRfm / Shows / Nostalgia 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.rtrfm.com.au [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ When around the corner seemed far away, and going downtown seemed like going somewhere.
Other meanings
.^ The word nostalgia would come to be used increasingly as a means of representing problems of a different sort, namely ones related to politics and empiricism.- ijcs #5 - history and the politics of nostalgia - marcos piason natali 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.uiowa.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ The fact that a reading of nostalgia may even be thought to be complete after proof is given that its representations of the past are distorted—after, in other words, nostalgia is shown to be something other than history—reduces the relation to the past to a problem of historiographic evidence.- ijcs #5 - history and the politics of nostalgia - marcos piason natali 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.uiowa.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ These strands, says Natali, show that it is only after historiography becomes the dominant means of approaching the past that nostalgia may be faulted for its inaccuracy.- ijcs #5 - nostalgia - introduction - sean scanlan 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.uiowa.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
This differs from the standard usage in that it does not necessarily include a longing or yearning to return to the past, but instead simply an appreciation for it.
See also
References
- Simon Bunke: Heimweh. Studien zur Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte einer tödlichen Krankheit. (Homesickness. On the Cultural and Literary History of a Lethal Disease). Freiburg 2009. 674 pp.
- Boulbry, Gaëlle and Borges, Adilson. Évaluation d’une échelle anglo-saxonne de mesure du tempérament nostalgique dans un contexte culturel français (Evaluation of an anglo-saxon scale of measurement of nostalgic mood in a French cultural context)
- Dominic Boyer, "Ostalgie and the Politics of the Future in Eastern Germany." Public Culture 18(2):361-381.
- Simon Bunke: Heimweh. .^ In: Bettina von Jagow / Florian Steger (Eds.
- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
): Literatur und Medizin im europäischen Kontext. Ein Lexikon. .^ Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2005.- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
380-384.
- Coromines i Vigneaux, Joan. .
- Davis, Fred Yearning for Yesterday: a Sociology of Nostalgia.^ Diccionari etimològic i complementari de la llengua catalana [Barcelona, Curial Edicions Catalanes, 1983] Davis, Fred Yearning for Yesterday: a Sociology of Nostalgia .
- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Leave a Comment Tags: nostalgia print LoS amiGoS dE la iMagEN by Federico Torroba + Juan Ignacio Colombo .- Rhizome | nostalgia 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC rhizome.org [Source type: General]
^ Un guio a la nostalgia, aunque yo he de reconocer que era ms del Tente.
.
- Hofer, Johannes, "Medical Dissertation on Nostalgia."^ NEW Nostalgia Electrics COM102 Cookie Maker Nonstick Buy It Now $50.60 20h 33m Free .
- nostalgia electrics, Home Garden, Business Industrial. Great deals on eBay! 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC shop.ebay.com [Source type: General]
^ The Division of State Government Accountability from the Office of the New York State Comptroller recently released an audit of the New York City Transit Museum ’s Nostalgia Train program.- nostalgia coverage by Gothamist 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC gothamist.com [Source type: General]
^ Medical Dissertation on Nostalgia.- ijcs #5 - nostalgia - introduction - sean scanlan 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.uiowa.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2 (1934): 376-391.- ijcs #5 - history and the politics of nostalgia - marcos piason natali 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.uiowa.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2 (1934).- ijcs #5 - nostalgia - introduction - sean scanlan 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.uiowa.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Trans. .^ Carolyn Kiser Anspach.- ijcs #5 - nostalgia - introduction - sean scanlan 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.uiowa.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- ijcs #5 - history and the politics of nostalgia - marcos piason natali 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC www.uiowa.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Carolyn Kiser Anspach 2.6 ((1688) Aug.- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.
- Hunter, Richard and Macalpine, Ida.^ Hunter, Richard and Macalpine, Ida.
- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry:1535–1860, [Hartsdale, NY, Carlisle Publishing, Inc, 1982]
- Hutcheon, Linda "Irony, Nostalgia, and the Postmodern"
- Jameson, Fredric "Nostalgia for the Present." The South Atlantic Quarterly, 88.2 (1989): 527. 60.
- Goodman's http://www.lclark.edu/~jgoodman/webpage%20ULTIMATE/Index.htm
- Thurber, Christopher A. and Marian D. Sigman, "Preliminary Models of Risk and Protective Factors for Childhood Homesickness: Review and Empirical Synthesis." .^ Child Development 69:4 (Aug.
- Nostalgia - Psychology Wiki 2 February 2010 16:31 UTC psychology.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
1998): 903-34.
- Dylan Trigg, The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason (New York: Peter Lang, 2006) [1]
- Nostalgia cartoons from 70's and 80's (in Polish).
- Linda M. Austin, 'Emily Bronte's Homesickness', Victorian Studies, 44:4 (summer 2002): 573-596.
- "The Memory of McGuffey" - Nostalgia for the McGuffey Readers
- Simon Bunke: Heimwehforschung.de