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Mourning and Melancholia

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Is There a Relationship Between Memory and Nastalgia?

Nastalgia describes a way of fantasizing the past, rather than remembering. Lick: I'm not sure if i see the identification of make america great again with with melancholia. With mourning and loss there is an important distinction between what you've lost and what you're losing in someone else. In this kind of singular relationship that we call love, it can be more like elizabeth bishop's poem ' thay ass' where she jokes about how much she misses her dead lover.

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