Who invented the term schadenfreude?
Who invented the term schadenfreude? Frances Power Cobbe In the 1890s, animal-rights campaigner Frances Power Cobbe wrote a manifesto entitled Schadenfreude, identifying the emotion with the bloodlust of boys torturing stray cats for fun. What does schadenfreude mean literally? joy Schadenfreude is a compound of the German nouns Schaden, meaning “damage” or “harm,” and Freude, […]