Anxiety as a Place for the Body of Writing in Kierkegaard. Cover Image

Angoasa ca loc al corpului scriiturii la Kierkegaard.
Anxiety as a Place for the Body of Writing in Kierkegaard.

Author(s): Flaviu-Victor Câmpean
Subject(s): Philosophy, Theology and Religion
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Anxiety; melancholy; body; writing; identity; letter;

Summary/Abstract: According to Kierkegaard, the only way to overcome his own circular melancholy is an identity of writing that outlines the real bodily exception of the “Hysteria of the Spirit”. Passing through a specific logic of absence, the melancholic’s strive towards a unique identity encounters both the philosophical and the psychoanalytical anxiety to which the “anaesthetic” pain of his delusion was blind. We can thus speak about the melancholic’s dwelling in anxiety due to the identification with nothingness that prevents the formation of identity within the horizon of the Other. The only salvation is a distance from nothingness in order to build an identity of the letter within anxiety – the only one that is possible precisely because melancholy is always the symptom of an impossible (real) history.

  • Issue Year: XV/2017
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 245-257
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian