The Sickness unto Death
by Søren Kierkegaard
Despair as the failure to be a self: not willing to be oneself, willing to be oneself without God, and the unconscious despair of the comfortable. Dense, psychological and a century ahead of psychology.
Read it if…
you want the deepest analysis of despair in the tradition.
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Skip it if…
you want an easy read; it is not.
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Three things you will actually use
- Despair is the sickness of the self.
- Most despair is unconscious.
- The self is a relation that relates itself to itself.
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Read Part One, section A.
Our verdict
Despair, analysed.
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