The Potential of Irony in Philosophical Counselling: An Approach Based on Søren Kierkegaard’s Ontology
The Potential of Irony in Philosophical Counselling: An Approach Based on Søren Kierkegaard’s Ontology

Summary/Abstract: In philosophical counseling, Kierkegaardian irony serves as an essential tool for recovering subjectivity from rational systems. The distinction between contemplative irony (a reflective distancing from mundane vanity) and executive irony (concrete action that annihilates existential constraints without an external purpose) avoids both pretense and nihilism, establishing an internal apriority that revalidates reality through personal appropriation. Grounded in Socratic spiritual exercises and existential psychotherapy, irony deconstructs social certainties, facilitating the counselee’s maturation from inertia to responsibility.

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