A magyar panaszkultúra kezdetei és jelene: (irodalom) történeti és szociálpszichológiai nézelődés
The Beginnings and Present of Hungarian Complaint-Culture: A (Literary)Historical and Social Psychological Overview

Summary/Abstract: Works in different genres, reflecting the turning points of Hungarian history, its losses, or its generally bad conditions have already been published in the 16th century. First, they appeared in the system of topoi in Latin poetry professed in Hungary as “querelea Hungariae”, complaints of Hungary, that plausibly enlisted grievance. Parallel to this, the growing body of native Hungarian literature also benefited from the vocabulary and phrases of complaint-culture. This paper, therefore, suggests that the beginnings of the Hungarian complaint-culture were not in modernity or during the Enlightenment, but much earlier. It also proposes another level of interpretation with a comparative look between recent studies in social psychology and early modern phrases towards our contemporary historical consciousness and argues that complaint-culture has become an integral part of national cultural heritage.

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