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Series · 7 Apr 2021#1 Mignon, or the song of silence

43:08If nostalgia was ever set into words and music, it was in Mignon's ballad.
45:03The melody conveys an irresistible and nostalgic longing, Sehnsucht, difficult to translate.

Season 9.1 · 10 Dec 2020#8 Benefits and harms of amnesia...

26:18Believing that there was an absolute in the past that one should rejoin, the "it was better before."
35:30Personal nostalgia is legitimate; it becomes substantialism when it idealizes the past.