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The Concept of Anxiety
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 1844
- Originally in
- Originally in Danish
- Pages
- Pages 208
Stand at the edge of a cliff and look down, and the fear is not only of falling; it is the terrible knowledge that you could jump. Kierkegaard, writing as Vigilius Haufniensis, the watchman of Copenhagen, calls this vertigo anxiety, "the dizziness of freedom," and says the eye is as much to blame as the abyss.
In the same way anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which arises when spirit wants to posit the synthesis
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