Kierkegaard as Psychologist /

Kierkegaard's psychological thought has always been acknowledged as very rich-Reinhold Niebuhr hailed him as the greatest psychologist of the soul since Augustine-and has had a major influence on Heidegger, Sartre, and existential psychoanalysis. Nevertheless, his accomplishment has not always...

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Main Author: McCarthy, Vincent A., 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Kierkegaard, psychology, and Freud
  • Sex and sexuality
  • Emotions about nothing
  • The psychology of either/or
  • Narcissism : Kierkegaard and Freud
  • Repetition compulsion
  • Melancholia and the religious : beyond repetitions
  • The dark ground of anxiety : Kierkegaard and Schelling
  • The fear of nothing : Kierkegaard and Heidegger
  • Despair as divided will and inner life ignored
  • Appendix: on the Kierkegaard-Heidegger relationship.