According to the Cambridge dictionary, the German word Sehnsucht can be translated as “craving, desire, longing, pining, wistfulness, yearning.”, with the second syllabe ‘Sucht’ meaning addiction: the addiction to yearn and desire. Franz Schubert’s life and music are a complex experience of Sehnsucht, starting in his twenty-sixth year when he contracted an illness which inspired …
Lars von Trier’s Dogville (2003) offers us an alternative interpretation to the mystery of the incarnation than what Christianity has traditionally come to understand in Christ’s humanization. Instead of the possibility of salvation, Dogville suggests Christ’s incarnation as the possibility of a universal condemnation. The story of God-becoming-man remains more or less the same; yet the conclusion reached is …
All music or art just wasn’t created for everyone to understand or share equally. That may sound harsh in our altruistic age. Nevertheless, pretending that art doesn’t exclude strikes me as rather ridiculous and frankly a lie. Some music, like other activities, requires certain surrender. A need for self-submission before the greater discovery. Those blissful …
