THE WILD MAN

The Wild Man is always to be found covered in mud, at the bottom of a dark pool in the centre of The Forest, and/or deep under and inside The Earth, directly below The Central Mountain of The World - The Axis Mundi.

“So, you know, I have felt that the men have suffered a great deal in losing The Wild Man, which is a certain form of spontaneity connected with The Wilderness itself. And they’ve suffered a great deal since the Second World War in losing The Warrior. It’s very strange how this works.

We gave up the The King, that is, we founded our country with getting rid of The King. And you know, The King is weak in American men also; how can it be otherwise?

MOYERS: 

The King being–

BLY: 

The King [being] the part of the man that determines what he is going to do now. 

What my course is going to be.

nostalgia (n.)

1770, "morbid longing to return to one's home or native country, severe homesickness considered as a disease," Modern Latin, coined 1688 in a dissertation on the topic at the University of Basel by scholar Johannes Hofer (1669-1752) as a rendering of German heimweh "homesickness" (for which see home + woe). From Greek algos "pain, grief, distress" (see -algia) + nostos "homecoming," from neomai "to reach some place, escape, return, get home," from PIE *nes- "to return safely home" (cognate with Old Norse nest "food for a journey," Sanskrit nasate "approaches, joins," German genesen "to recover," Gothic ganisan "to heal," Old English genesen "to recover"). 

French nostalgie is in French army medical manuals by 1754. 

Originally in reference to the Swiss and said to be peculiar to them and often fatal, whether by its own action or in combination with wounds or disease. 

By 1830s the word was used of any intense homesickness: that of sailors, convicts, African slaves. 

"The bagpipes produced the same effects sometimes in the Scotch regiments while serving abroad" 

Penny Magazine," Nov. 14, 1840