196 - Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety: Anxiety Is Not an Ailment to Be Removed

Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/kierkegaards-concept-of-anxiety-anxiety-is-not-an-ailment-to-be-removed-mythic-mind-ep-196/ Today I'm giving you a free look into my Mythic Mind Fellowship course, The Psychology of Søren Kierkegaard: Life in Anxiety & Despair, as we begin with the preface and introduction to The Concept of Anxiety. Before the argument proper, Kierkegaard's pseudonym Vigilius Haufniensis, the Watchman of Copenhagen, tells us what kind of book this is and what kind of book it is not: not a clinical study, not a self-help manual, and not a theology textbook borrowing a psychological title. He is a psychologist with theology in view, writing a monograph rather than a system. The course is underway now and is included with Fellow and Companion memberships, so joining the Fellowship gets you the rest of it. We look at what happens when sin is handled in the wrong field (aesthetics, metaphysics, or psychology on its own), why earnestness is the proper mood for this book, and how Haufniensis maps four neighboring disciplines: first ethics, dogmatics, psychology, and second ethics. Psychology can trace the real possibility of sin, but it cannot cross the qualitative leap. That is why its proper object is anxiety, which is not an ailment to be removed but the threshold where we face either despair or faith. Chapters: 0:00 A free look at the Kierkegaard course 0:30 The texts for this study 5:53 The preface and introduction 6:52 Vigilius Haufniensis and Kierkegaard's pseudonyms 8:28 A psychologist with theology in view 10:40 The Watchman of Copenhagen: a monograph, not a system 16:49 Sin out of place: the false moods 19:39 Earnestness, the proper mood 22:35 Four disciplines: first ethics, dogmatics, psychology, second ethics 27:44 Psychology's limit and the qualitative leap 29:43 Takeaways and what comes next The Psychology of Søren Kierkegaard: Life in Anxiety and Despair (course introduction): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ6KDO2mNPY Anxiety Means You Can Choose (Mythic Mind, ep. 189): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwKDIRfQGQY Kierkegaard on Man’s Highest Perfection (Mythic Mind, ep. 193): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJXOC2PfR3M The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Am I Guilty? (Mythic Mind, ep. 194): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIgiz_wQbXk Oblivion's Sheogorath and Kierkegaard's Sickness unto Death (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 34): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZUgEUzaBXU 📚 Books discussed The Concept of Anxiety by Søren Kierkegaard (Thomte translation): https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780691020112 Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle: https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9781250798428 Freedom and Its Misuses: Kierkegaard on Anxiety and Despair by Gregory R. Beabout Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership</