Taedium vitae

The Taedium vitae ( Latin : disgust of life , weariness of life ) is a term coined by the Roman philosopher Seneca , a stoic , which in psychoanalysis describes the loss or reduction of the joy of life in depressive syndromes.

Goethe processes the Taedium vitae as part of his own attitude towards life and as an epoch phenomenon in The Sorrows of Young Werther and in Poetry and Truth .

Taedium vitae is also the title of a story by Hermann Hesse (1908) and a poem by Oscar Wilde .

Individual evidence

↑ taedium - Wiktionary. In: de.wiktionary.org. Retrieved September 13, 2016 .
↑ vita - Wiktionary. In: de.wiktionary.org. Retrieved September 13, 2016 .
↑ Alfred Bellebaum : boredom, weariness and meaning of life: an intellectual-historical and cultural-sociological investigation. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1990, ISBN 3-531-12206-1 , p. 51.
^ Rüdiger Safranski : Goethe, artwork of life. Hanser, Munich 2013, pp. 155 ff., 531, 633.

[1] taedium - Wiktionary. In: de.wiktionary.org. Retrieved September 13, 2016 .

[2] vita - Wiktionary. In: de.wiktionary.org. Retrieved September 13, 2016 .

[3] Alfred Bellebaum : boredom, weariness and meaning of life: an intellectual-historical and cultural-sociological investigation. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1990, ISBN 3-531-12206-1 , p. 51.

[4] Rüdiger Safranski : Goethe, artwork of life. Hanser, Munich 2013, pp. 155 ff., 531, 633.