The Concept Of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologicall... -

: For Kierkegaard, "more anxiety = more spirit". Animals do not experience this existential dread because they lack the self-conscious freedom that makes humans "spirit". A Comparative Theology of Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard

The work you are referring to is , published in 1844 by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard under the pseudonym Vigilius Haufniensis . The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologicall...

: Anxiety is the awareness of what could happen; it is the "possibility of possibility". : For Kierkegaard, "more anxiety = more spirit"

Kierkegaard famously defines anxiety as the . He illustrates this with the image of a person standing on the edge of a cliff: they feel a natural fear of falling, but also a terrifying, dizzying impulse to throw themselves off. This dizziness arises because the person realizes they have the absolute freedom to choose their next action. : Anxiety is the awareness of what could