Modernism’s Nostalgics, Nostalgia’s Modernity
Modernism’s Nostalgics, Nostalgia’s Modernity
This chapter contextualizes the understanding of nostalgia and the ways of constructing its pathology, from the Enlightenment to the post-Romantic. It reveals the way in which thought on the pathology of nostalgia is itself a transitional stage in the psychiatry of trauma. It shows that trauma develops and disrupts the logic of psychiatry in the conceptualization of nostalgia. Nostalgia ceases to be organic, a malaise to be treated in its physiology. From its construction in the Enlightenment as a condition with no memory but placed in the body, it becomes in the Romantic period a condition of memory but with no place. The passage from nostalgia to trauma builds on this loss of the somatic symptom.
Keywords: nostalgia, trauma, Modernism, memory, psychology, pathology
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