Lonely town. Exercises in the art of loneliness (№ 400606)

In 1975 the sociologist Robert Weiss has prepared an important study, "Loneliness: the experience of emotional and social isolation". Recognizing that this topic is commonly neglected, he dryly noted, loneliness is often broadcast poets, songwriters, and not social scientists. He believed that solitude is not only in itself removes from equilibrium - Weiss writes about this condition as an "obsession" that this state of "persistently remarkable", "almost sinister affliction of the spirit," and thus interferes with empathy, because pulling a kind of self-protective amnesia, but because when people are no longer alone, he barely remembers what it is, it's condition: "If a person has been alone, now he has no access to the his self, which experienced a loneliness; moreover, people will likely prefer that it stays that way. In the end, suffered in the past from loneliness is likely to respond to someone else's loneliness without understanding or even it is possible, with irritation".