“Sehnsucht”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Psychologists have worked to capture the essence of {{lang|de|Sehnsucht}} by identifying its six core characteristics:^[3]

In a cross-cultural study conducted to determine whether the German concept of {{lang|de|Sehnsucht}} could be generalized to the United States, four samples of American and German participants “rated their 2 most important life longings and completed measures of subjective well-being and health.”^[4] German and American participants did not differ in their ability to identify life longings or the intensity of their {{lang|de|Sehnsucht}}. However, German participants associated it more with unattainable, utopian states while Americans reported the concept as not as important to everyday life.

Some researchers posit that {{lang|de|Sehnsucht}} has a developmental function that involves life management. By imagining overarching and possibly unachievable goals, individuals may be able to create direction in their life by developing more tangible goals, or “stepping stones” that will aid them on their path toward their ideal self. "[{{lang|de|Sehnsucht}} has] important developmental functions, including giving directionality for life planning and helping to cope with loss and important, yet unattainable wishes by pursuing them in one's imagination."^[5] It can also operate as a self-regulatory mechanism.

However, in a study that attempted to discover whether {{lang|de|Sehnsucht}} played an active role in one’s ability to influence their own development, psychologists asked 81 participants to report “their most important personal goals and life longings, and [evaluate] these with respect to their cognitive, emotional, and action-related characteristics.”^[6] Results showed that goals were perceived as more closely linked to everyday actions, and as such more controllable. {{lang|de|Sehnsucht}}, on the other hand, was reported as more related to the past and future, and therefore more emotionally and developmentally ambiguous.

Also, in a study conducted in 2009, 168 middle-aged childless women were asked to rate their wish for children according to intensity and attainability. If the women rated their wish as intense and long-standing, their wish was considered a life-longing. If they rated their wish as intense and attainable, it was simply a goal. “The pursuit of the wish for children as a life longing was positively related to well-being only when participants had high control over the experience of this life longing and when other self-regulation strategies (goal adjustment) failed.”^[7]

In popular culture

"{{lang|de|Sehnsucht|italic=no}}" is a poem by {{lang|de|Friedrich Schiller|italic=no}} that inspired composers like {{lang|de|Franz Schubert|italic=no}} and {{lang|de|Siegfried Wagner|italic=no}}. {{lang|de|Goethe|italic=no}}'s "{{lang|de|Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt|italic=no}}" was set to music by multiple composers including Ludwig van Beethoven.^[8]

Richard Strauss composed a setting of Detlev von Liliencron's poem "Sehnsucht" in 1896 (Opus 32, number 2).

Sehnsucht (1997) is the title of the second album, and title track of that album, by the German metal band, {{lang|de|Rammstein|italic=no}}.

In 2011 the film director Badran Roy Badran treated the concept of Sehnsucht in his feature film A Play Entitled Sehnsucht.^[9]^[10]

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1. ^{{cite web |url=https://dict.leo.org/german-english/sehnsucht |title=LEO Results for "sehnsucht"}}
2. ^{{cite journal |last=Kotter-Grühn |first=D. |last2=Wiest |first2=M. |last3=Zurek |first3=P. |last4=Scheibe |first4=S. |title=What is it we are longing for? Psychological and demographic factors influencing the contents of Sehnsucht (life longings) |journal=Journal of Research in Personality |year=2009 |volume=43 |pages=428–437 |doi=10.1016/j.jrp.2009.01.012 }}
3. ^{{cite journal |last=Scheibe |first=S. |last2=Freund |first2=A. M. |last3=Baltes |first3=P. B. |title=Toward a developmental psychology of Sehnsucht (life longings): The optimal (utopian) life |journal=Developmental Psychology |year=2007 |volume=43 |pages=778–795 |doi=10.1037/0012-1649.43.3.778 |pmid=17484587 }}
4. ^{{cite journal |last=Scheibe |first=S. |last2=Blanchard-Fields |first2=F. |last3=Wiest |first3=M. |last4=Freund |first4=A. M. |title=Is longing only for Germans? A cross-cultural comparison of sehnsucht in Germany and the United States |journal=Developmental Psychology |year=2011 |doi=10.1037/a0021807 |volume=47 |pages=603–618 |pmid=21219068 }}
5. ^{{cite journal |last=Scheibe |first=S. |last2=Freund |first2=A. M. |title=Approaching Sehnsucht (life longings) from a life-span perspective: The role of personal utopias in development |journal=Research in Human Development |year=2008 |pages=121–133 }}
6. ^{{cite journal |last=Mayser |first=S. |last2=Scheibe |first2=S. |last3=Riediger |first3=M. |title=(Un)reachable? An empirical differentiation of goals and life longings |journal=European Psychologist |year=2008 |volume=13 |pages=126–140 |doi=10.1027/1016-9040.13.2.126 }}
7. ^{{cite journal |last=Kotter-Grühn |first=D. |last2=Scheibe |first2=S. |last3=Blanchard-Fields |first3=F. |last4=Baltes |first4=P. B. |title=Developmental emergence and functionality of Sehnsucht (life longings): The sample case of involuntary childlessness in middle-aged women |journal=Psychology and Aging |year=2009 |volume=24 |pages=634–644 |doi=10.1037/a0016359 }}
8. ^"Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt" at LiederNet Archive
9. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2248661/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1|title=A Play Entitled Sehnsucht}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/user/ur32552023/comments?ref_=tt_urv|title=Reviews written by Khourysara6|work=IMDb}}

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In popular culture

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