Anxiety, Despair And The Knight Of Faith: The Ontological, The Ontic And The Transcendent in Søren Kierkegaard
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https://doi.org/10.65828/63339k96Keywords:
Kierkegaard, existentialism, anxiety, despair, bereavement, psychotherapy, Binswanger, van DeurzenAbstract
Two cases in the existential-phenomenological literature, Ellen West and Rita, are re-examined in the light of Kierkegaard's powerful critique of Anxiety and Despair in his so-called 'psychological works'. An attempt is made to show how Kierkegaard's ideas can be humanized and secularized for the work of therapy.
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