Loneliness
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"I'll be so lonely, I could die."--"Heartbreak Hotel" (1956) "From the automobile to television, all the goods selected by the spectacular system are also its weapons for a constant reinforcement of the conditions of isolation of “lonely crowds." --The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord "All men's misfortunes proceed from their aversion to being alone"--The Characters of Jean de La Bruyère (1688) by Jean de La Bruyère |
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Loneliness is an emotional state in which a person experiences a powerful feeling of emptiness and isolation. Loneliness is more than just the feeling of wanting company or wanting to do something with another person. Loneliness is a feeling of being cut off, disconnected and alienated from other people. The lonely person may find it difficult or even impossible to have any form of meaningful human contact. Lonely people often experience a subjective sense of inner emptiness or hollowness, with feelings of separation or isolation from the world.
The 1950 book The Lonely Crowd helped further raise the profile of loneliness among academics. For the general public, awareness was raised by the 1966 Beatles song "Eleanor Rigby".
See also
- Nighthawks, Hopper's visual exploration of loneliness.
Namesakes in art and fiction
- The Well of Loneliness
- The Lonely Crowd (1950) by David Riesman et al
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Heartbreak Hotel
See also
- Solitude (Jean-Jacques Henner)
- Autophobia
- Individualism
- Interpersonal relationship
- Loner
- Pit of despair (animal experiments on isolation)
- Solitude
- Total Perspective Vortex (literary device)
- Shyness
- Social anxiety
- Social anxiety disorder
- Schizoid personality disorder
