Nostalgia for a Past Unlived: What Anemoia Tells Us About Human Psychology and Culture

Anemoia, a coinage from the writer John Koenig – author of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows – refers to a feeling of nostalgia for a time one didn’t live through. I previously wrote about why this feeling arises, namely, by connecting it to Daniel Laidler’s concept of hagioptasia: the tendency to project ‘specialness’ onto certain aspects… The post Nostalgia for a Past Unlived: What Anemoia Tells Us About Human Psychology and Culture appeared first on Sam Woolfe.