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  1. Johann Christoff

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    Christoff’s most cited, though largely unpublished, contribution to early Romantic thought is the "Theory of Refracted Melancholy" (German: Die Theorie der Gebrochenen Wehmut). This concept posited that intense emotional states, particularly those associated with nostalgia or vague spiritual yearning, do not originate internally but are instead residual photons reflected from objects that have previously absorbed significant [historical…