483: angst Apr 4, 2016

The English word 'angst' was directly adopted from German in the 1920's. But why?–The closest equivalent from romantic origin is 'anguish', but when translators attempted to translate Kierkegaard and then Freud, they did not want to settle. Were it not for these great thinkers, there would be much more difficulty than there already is surrounding expressing one's own emotions.