Defining nostalgia, as a rule, it is divided into two types:
1. Homesickness, the house mother.
2. Longing for once endured the past and now lost.
meaning of nostalgia in Greek means "the return of the pain."Probably the second, more general and universal significance of this feeling is capacious enough and as it determines not only the absence of the last time, but the lack of space.This also fall, and his father's house, and, in general, the birthplace.And you can look wider.
What is nostalgia?It can be not only a longing for personal living time, but from time to time, in which people do not live.Maybe even in an era that never in reality did not exist.Through artistic works (books, movies) so you can fall in love with the past, imbued with his spirit, that it is difficult to distinguish from reality invented.
If the answer to the question of what the word nostalgia, it will be - longing.Dictionary epithets Russian language this concept as much as 163 sets determination.It turns out that longing is not only hopeless, but also proud, not only unbearable, but rebellious, not only hopeless, but also happy, not only poisonous, but also sweet and charming and even happy, for example, nostalgia for childhood.The feeling of this type more accurately characterizes the second series of epithets.It has its own specific nature.This proves that the definition of "Tosca" is almost identical to the name of "boredom" and called nostalgia thus does not turn the language.
Homesickness - a philosophical concept, rather the human condition, which plays an important role in understanding their own destiny, life.From this perspective, what nostalgia is not a type of reflection that helps to better understand the man himself.
Psychologists attribute this longing is not the feelings and experiences in, sometimes at a subconscious level.This means that nostalgia makes a person prodelyvat complicated inner workings: remember the past, to exercise their intellectual abilities and creative imagination.Most notably, it is manifested in the four kinds of human activity: in art, religion, philosophy and in everyday life.
If you ask a doctor what is the nostalgia, the answer is unequivocal - the disease.Learning this disease psychiatry.Probably, there is a grain of truth.Pirogov, the great Russian doctor gave examples of death from severe homesickness Russian soldiers serving abroad.In the old days, the soldiers from Switzerland away from their motherland were forbidden to sing and play native tunes and melodies, so as not to wake up in other episodes of mass nostalgia.
nostalgia displayed most vividly in various genres of art: music, film, painting, sculpture.But, of course, the main carrier of nostalgic motifs is literature.There is even a literary genre - memoir.A diary?What is this if not a way to preserve human memories of his past, then it was easier to feed them their nostalgia.
