Depicting a hairless figure on a bridge under a brilliant yellow-orange sky, the composition was originally conceived by Munch as part of his "Frieze of Life" series, which explores themes of love, angst and death.
Those who know the Nirvana story only as a cautionary tale of drugs, angst and death, or others who've come to dismiss Sonic Youth as too cool, will be shocked by the goofy high comedy of nearly every backstage moment.
Heidegger departed from Husserl in approaching Being through a focus on 'Human Being' (in German Dasein) concerned above all for its fate in an alien world, or as 'anxiety' (Angst) towards death (see Being and Time I. 6).
Handing over one's head implied overcoming the most primal of fears and the root of our existential angst -- death.
Wallace: "You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness, both of which are sub-dreads of our dread of being trapped inside a self (a psychic self, not just a physical self), has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.
THE MARS VOLTA -- Progressive rock returns, jolted by emo angst and death-metal morbidity, on the Mars Volta's album, "De-Loused in the Comatorium" (GSL/Strummer/Universal).
Behind these satisfying endings was a performance of the ultimate satisfying ending: the annihilation of the need for an ending, the neutralizing of death angst.
Even scuba diving or bungee jumping becomes for them existential confrontation with mortality, raising primal questions about courage and angst, life and death, God or his absence.
As for Star Trek IV, Beyond touched nicely on Kirk's continuing angst over the death of his father, which we saw in the opening scenes of the 2009 series opener.
The concept of "ghosts" derives from our death angst.
