tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post2857945803462561180..comments2024-03-23T11:40:13.092-05:00Comments on Musical Assumptions: Sturm, Drang, and StressElaine Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-6765771986334511872011-09-20T14:44:17.072-05:002011-09-20T14:44:17.072-05:00Drang does not mean stress, but rather an urging o...Drang does not mean stress, but rather an urging or pressure to move towards something. This can mean natural forces or used to describe men's actions. <br /><br />In the same way, Sturm can be applied as a military term, as well as mean storm. The storming of the Bastille was a storm, after all. <br /><br />The image of Sturm und Drang is of mighty forces and movement.<br /><br />Somehow psychological stress in comparison seems more a drizzle and less a mighty storm, for today's focus of the self is a very different thing than an Enlightenment mentality in which freedom meant more than a choice of "you want fries with that?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com