Love- every language has a word for love. Love is a basic human emotion.
All of the different cultures appeared to feel the same emotional need to express these feelings. We, as human beings needed to be able to talk about our
feelings of love. We didn’t want them to remain internal to us, unexpressible. We wanted to share them with others. So, every culture came up with at least one word in order to externally express the internally felt.
For more cultural defintions of love click here
However, there are some emotion related words that do not easily translate- Schadenfreude is one example but there are others. This leads one to question why one culture has a greater
desire to talk about an emotion than an other. Are emotions basic to humanity rather than culture? Can you feel something as a German that you aren’t capable of feeling as an English person?
Surely this cannot be the case for
Schadenfreude - there are endless re-runs on cable television of people making fools of themselves of home video cameras. There is such a demand for these clips that television companies will pay £250 per clip. This suggests that the
feeling of Schadenfreude is not entirely culturally specific. But if such feelings are not then why is the language culturally specific?
In our psychotherapeutic culture surely we should be looking to find terms for all sorts of
emotions that we haven’t felt the need to talk about before. Feelings that were too terrible to put into words, or feelings that we’d rather deny we had. It appears we are still using Hermione Grangers strategy of not “naming” -referring
to Voldemort as “he who cannot be named”.
The issue of Schadenfreude is discussed further by the maverick philosopher. Click here for the link
feel love
TOK The Language of Love
I'm rediscovering Donna Summer now. So her songs are one of my main sources of inspiration. It's pretty hard to believe "I Feel Love" was written in 1977. It sounds so contemporary. Either modern dance music is not that innovative, or Donna and Giorgio Moroder were quite ahead of their time. Guess what's the right answer.
Donna Summer: I Feel Love
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