Kierkegaard as psychologist / Vincent A. McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCarthy, Vincent A., 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855--Influence.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Psychology--Philosophy.

Psychology.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

xvi, 190 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.

Summary:

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 been fully appreciated, in part because it is so scattered across his works. As Vincent McCarthy demonstrates in Kierkegaard as Psychologist, Kierkegaard was pursuing "psychology" before there was a formally recognized academic fieldbearing that name, and a coherent thread runs through the so-called pseudonymous works. McCarthy elucidates often-difficult texts, highlights the rich psychological dimension of Kierkegaard's thought, and provides an introduction for the nonspecialist and a commentary on Kierkegaard's psychology that will interest both specialists and nonspecialists, while engaging in rich comparisons with such figures as Freud and Heidegger. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index.

ISBN:

9780810131316

0810131315

9780810131811

0810131811

9780810131323

0810131323

OCLC:

898158943