著者
川口 潤 Kawaguchi Jun
出版者
名古屋大学大学院文学研究科附属日本近現代文化研究センター
雑誌
JunCture : 超域的日本文化研究 (ISSN:18844766)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.2, pp.54-65, 2011-03-01

Nostalgia is one of the common feelings people experience when they encounter information from their past. However, few psychological studies have been conducted on the phenomenon of nostalgia. In this article, I describe the history and definition of nostalgia, review psychological studies on nostalgia, and discuss the relationship between nostalgia and memory. Nostalgia was coined by the Swiss physician Johannes Hofer in the 17th century to refer to the psychological and physiological symptoms exhibited by Swiss mercenaries working in foreign countries. By the early 19th century, nostalgia came to be regarded as a form of melancholia or depression, and through the mid 20th century it came to be considered a psychodynamic disorder like "mentally repressive compulsive disorder." Throughout this period, nostalgia has been viewed simply as "homesickness." However, the recent concept of nostalgia has a sentimental feeling of longing for the past rather than a mental disease. Psychological studies on nostalgia have been recently launched, and they began by elucidating what the essence of nostalgic experience is, when people are nostalgic, and what the psychological significance of nostalgia is. Those studies showed chat a person recalls memories with himself/herself as protagonist during the feeling of nostalgia, and that nostalgia is triggered by negative feelings. Furthermore, nostalgia has the socio-psychological functions of bolstering social bonds, increasing self-regard, and generating positive affect. From the theoretical perspective of human memory, nostalgia is associated with the episodic memory system, which underlies remembering one's own past with a feeling of re-experience, "mental time travel" Mental time travel is a form of recall that allows people to re-experience, albeit in an attenuated form, situations previously encountered. Considering that episodic memory is thought to be a hallmark of a highly evolved memory system and uniquely human, nostalgia can also be regarded as human-specific and advantageous in the evolution of the human mind.

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