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摘要
The concept of the perfect life plays an important role in the arts and humanities, but has scarcely received attention as a psychological phenomenon. I propose a lifespan developmental conceptualization of Sehnsucht; of striving for a personal utopia of the perfect life., as expressed in the phenomenon of life longings (better captured in the German word Sehnsucht). It is suggested to characterize life longings with a family of six core characteristics: (1) utopian conceptions of ideal development; (2) sense of incompleteness and imperfection of life; (3) conjoint time focus on the past, present, and future; (4) ambivalent (bitter-sweet) emotions; (5) reflection and evaluation of one's life; and (6) symbolic richness. These theoretical assumptions are supported by a first empirical study by Scheibe, Freund, and Baltes (2007).
- 出版日期2008
