A bold psychological portrait of Kierkegaard that connects his life to his ideas.
This nonfiction study uses psychoanalytic insights to illuminate how the thinker’s family ties, personal relationships, and inner conflicts shaped his philosophy. It traces a path from a dominant father-imago and early turmoil to the development of a distinctive, sometimes controversial, existential voice.
The book blends biography with interpretation, showing how events like Kierkegaard’s engagement and its end, along with later self-reflection, fed his quest to “move beyond” ordinary life. It grounds its analysis in repeated motifs—father figures, love and loss, and the tension between life and death—that recur in his writings and in the era’s cultural mood.
- Learn how the father figure and family dynamics are read as engines for Kierkegaard’s thought.
- See how romantic ties and their outcome intersect with philosophical developments and religious questions.
- Explore terms like Eros, imago, sublimation, and the death instinct as they relate to his work.
- Consider how a psychoanalytic lens can illuminate the creativity and conflicts of a key modern thinker.
Ideal for readers of philosophy, psychology, and scholars seeking a different lens on Kierkegaard’s life and ideas.
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Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust, Like Diamonds, we are cut with our owne dust.
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Kierkegaard is of special interest to us as a type who contained within himself the power to ascend to the utmost peaks of individuality - and not only to ascend towards an outer individuality - but to hold within the flowering rod and the cold spire of the Master Builder distance of religious individuality. Kierkegaard came before the dawn of analytical consciousness. In those days the power of the Father had not yet been brought down to earth or realised on earth - thin cold feet could endlessly run and too long arms be stretched to their fingertips beseeching to be called to the warmth of the radiant God. Such was the heroic phase of early nineteenth-century schizoid thought; through loneliness alone could nearness to the Father be achieved.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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