| Kierkegaard's Psychology Contributor(s): Nordentoft, Kresten (Author), Bukdahl, Jorgen (Translator) |
|
 |
ISBN: 1606085700 ISBN-13: 9781606085707 Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers OUR PRICE: $48.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers - Religion | Psychology Of Religion |
| Dewey: 150.192 |
| Series: Kierkegaard Classic Studies |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.30 lbs) 434 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Kierkegaard's Psychology, filled with penetrating analyses of the most central and important problems of psychology, opens a new window to understand these enduring problems through a Kierkegaardian lens. Explanations cover the full spectrum of expected topics: sexuality and the damages connected to moralistic condemnation of sexuality; identity and awareness; escape and despair; instinct, guilt, defense, and self-delusion; anxiety, duplicity, conflict, and crisis; the state of encapsulation in which the individual rejects communication with the world and circles around himself; and the list goes on to include varieties of neurosis and psychosis. Parallels are made to Freudian and post-Freudian psychology, but the accent is put on Kierkegaard's major psychological project, namely, the analysis that obduracy, that sin, which consists in rejecting the possibility of being helped, in turning down ""recovery"" and clinging to one's own state of despair in spiteful love of it, leads individuals into the tragic zone of perpetually cherishing their own states of crisis. In the end, readers who either have no knowledge of Kierkegaard's concept of existentialism or a wrong notion of it, will be surprised to discover how very straightforward and realistic the Kierkegaardian problems are. |
