Observations on some psychological and psychiatric aspects of boredom
Fiume, S.; Lancia, U.
Minerva Psichiatrica 36(3): 155-162
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0374-9320 PMID: 8583884 Document Number: 450489
The authors examine the feeling of boredom as it has been dealt with philosophers, psychologists and writers of fiction. Then the authors tentatively analyse boredom psychology regarding man-world relationship. The psychiatric aspects of boredom are subsequently tackled: it works as a warning light and it reveals the yearning to overcome one's own finitudo and to transcend one's own disappointing subjectivity. That is why boredom is absent in the gravest manifestations of psychiatric diseases.