The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin is often considered Kierkegaard’s most difficult work. The work is ‘psychological’ in that psychology is in the best position to describe anxiety. Anxiety itself however gives way only to a dogmatic (religious) orientation; psychology is required but can only go so far.
The following may not make any sense (as I am trying to sort this out myself) but I thought I would try and unpack a few key quotes in Kierkegaard’s concept.
David CL Driedger 