I foound an essay on Freud's view on transience and it was very interesting! http://www.freuds-requiem.com/excerpt.html
Freud speaks about two views on transience:
- Pessimistic View: Something that is transient leads to a loss of it's worth
- Optomistic view: "transient value is scarcity in time. Limitation in the possibility of enjoyment raises the value of enjoyment" (Strachey 2005:1)
According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Transience is " the state or qualtiy of being transient", and further "transient: passing with time;transitory: the transient beauty of youth" (lidia M. Child) (soukanov 1996:1901). I see it as something that is impermanent and something that will change and is not renewable.
In the book that Fontanna Wrote on signs and symbols he talks about flowers being a "universal symbol of youth and vitality , but because of their impermanence they also connote fragility."
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