Sehnsucht

For the Rammstein album, see Sehnsucht (album). For other uses, see Sehnsucht (disambiguation)

Sehnsucht is a German word that literally means "longing" or in a wider sense a kind of "intensely missing". However, Sehnsucht is almost impossible to translate adequately and describes a deep emotional status quo. The stage director and author Georg Tabori called Sehnsucht one of those quasi-mystical terms in German for which there is no satisfactory corresponding term in another language. It is this close relationship (encapsulated in one word) between ardent longing or yearning (das Sehnen) and addiction (die Sucht ) that lurks behind each longing, waiting to turn the feeling into a destructive, self-defeating force. Sehnsucht took on a particular meaning in the work of author C. S. Lewis.

Lewis denotes by Sehnsucht the "inconsolable longing" in the human heart for "we know not what." In the Afterword to the third edition of The Pilgrim's Regress he provides examples of what sparked this desire in him particularly. Lewis talks about

That unnameable something, desire for which pierces us like a rapier at the smell of bonfire, the sound of wild ducks flying overhead, the title of The Well at the World's End, the opening lines of "Kubla Khan", the morning cobwebs in late summer, or the noise of falling waves.

It is sometimes felt as a longing for a far off country, but not a particular earthly land which we can identify. Furthermore there is something in the experience which suggests this far off country is very familiar and indicative of what we might otherwise call "home". In this sense it is a type of nostalgia, in the original sense of that word. At other times it may seem as a longing for a someone or even a something. But the majority of people who experience it are not conscious of what or who the longed for object may be. Indeed, the longing is of such profundity and intensity that the subject may immediately be only aware of the emotion itself and not cognizant that there is a something longed for.

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Sehnsucht

For the Rammstein album, see Sehnsucht (album). For other uses, see Sehnsucht (disambiguation) Sehnsucht is a German word that literally means "longing" or in a wider sense a kind ...

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Sehnsucht (German for "Longing", "Desire" and sometimes "Hunger") is the German NDH-metal band Rammstein 's second album. It was released on 22 August 1997.

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