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- Title
Wenn Langeweile tödlich wird.
- Authors
Haubl, Rolf
- Abstract
Boredom is a widespread but relatively little explored mood. It is often underestimated in its effects, especially in its chronic, unbearably agonizing variant. The empirically well-documented correlation between boredom and aggression, against oneself and others, is disturbing. The paper describes, in a first step, this variant of boredom as a conflictual action inhibition, which manifests itself in a multifaceted phenomenology, psychodynamics and sociodynamics. In a second step, the paradigmatic case is discussed where a violent person justified her destructiveness by the argument that she was bored. Finally, in a third step, the social conditions of boredom are brought into perspective: The thesis outlines that late modern society commands its members to be not boring, thereby increasing boredom and making it hardly bearable.
- Publication
Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse (frommann-holzboog Verlag e.K.), 2015, Issue 70, p161
- ISSN
0075-2363
- Publication type
Article