Category Archives: Longings

The Bittersweat Taste of Life Longings

The topic of an optimal or utopian life has received much attention across the humanities and the arts but not in psychology. The German concept of Sehnsucht captures individual and collective thoughts and feelings about one’s optimal or utopian life.
Sehnsucht (life longings; LLs) is defined as an intense desire for alternative states and realizations of […]