Really interesting post, including your linked abstracts. What you posit about nostalgia seems highly plausible.
"This paper introduces the Invalidated Hope Theory, a novel framework reconceptualizing nostalgia as the visceral reminder of hopes that have been invalidated. [....]"
Yea I don't get to talk about it much but I can't think of any counter examples, like nostalgias that I can't reduce to mourning a hope. Also apparently my framework is the only one that fully explains the bitter sweet aspect. The hope was sweet, the mourning is bitter.
Really interesting post, including your linked abstracts. What you posit about nostalgia seems highly plausible.
"This paper introduces the Invalidated Hope Theory, a novel framework reconceptualizing nostalgia as the visceral reminder of hopes that have been invalidated. [....]"
Yea I don't get to talk about it much but I can't think of any counter examples, like nostalgias that I can't reduce to mourning a hope. Also apparently my framework is the only one that fully explains the bitter sweet aspect. The hope was sweet, the mourning is bitter.