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C.M. Cardinale's avatar

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. [....]"

Innomen's avatar

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.