That was a good movie, I might watch it again. Funny how perfectionism can sneak back up on us. The video also mentioned The Red Shoes, and how obsession/need for control can take the form of impulsivity vs repressed self-control. I'd never thought of that before. I think I've experienced both.
The French loanword ennui comes from the very same Late Latin word that gave us annoy — inodiare ("to make loathsome"). We borrowed ennui several centuries after absorbing annoy into the language. Ennui deals more with boredom than irritation - and a somewhat specific sort of boredom at that. It generally refers to the feeling of jadedness that can result from living a life of too much ease. The poet Charles Lloyd described it well in his 1823 Stanzas to Ennui when he referred to that world-weary sensation as a "soul-destroying fiend" which visits with its "pale unrest / The chambers of the human breast / Where too much happiness hath fixed its home."
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The video also mentioned The Red Shoes, and how obsession/need for control can take the form of impulsivity vs repressed self-control. I'd never thought of that before. I think I've experienced both.