النوستالجيا و تمثلاتها في النص المسرحي العراقي

الملخص EN

When a person feels that his life is about to end and has changed for the worse, the warm and emotional mind calls for good memories of the past, to give him the impetus he desperately needs to deal with immediate challenges, and nostalgia has a psychological basis, called the term (nostolology), invented by the Swiss doctor Johannes Hoover (1867_1928) in the late seventeenth century, after noticing a group of wage Swiss workers, who were expatriates, suffering from common symptoms such as indigestion, insomnia, and irregular heartbeat, and it turned out later, that the main reasons were nostalgia and longing for Motherland.

The disclosure of the nostalgia has become an independent process, and a phenomenon in our contemporary Arab society.

Personality, history, present and effectiveness within the structure of the theatrical text, as the authors dealt with Nostalgia at various levels, employing multiple nostalgic images in the subjects of their theatrical texts.