The Concept of Anxiety

CONTENTS

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

The Concept of Anxiety

I Anxiety as the Presupposition of Hereditary Sin and as Explaining Hereditary Sin Retrogressively in Terms of Its Origin

1. HISTORICAL INTIMATIONS REGARDING THE CONCEPT OF HEREDITARY SIN

2. THE CONCEPT OF THE FIRST SIN

3. THE CONCEPT OF THE INNOCENCE

4. THE CONCEPT OF THE FALL

5. THE CONCEPT OF ANXIETY

6. ANXIETY AS THE PRESUPPOSITION OF HEREDITARY SIN AND AS EXPLAINING HEREDITARY SIN RETROGRESSIVELY IN TERMS OF ITS ORIGIN

II Anxiety as Explaining Hereditary Sin Progressively

1. OBJECTIVE ANXIETY

2. SUBJECTIVE ANXIETY

A. The Consequence of the Relationship of Generation

B. The Consequence of the Historical Relationship

III Anxiety as the Consequence of that Sin which Is Absence of the Consciousness of Sin

1. THE ANXIETY OF SPIRITLESSNESS

2. ANXIETY DEFINED DIALECTICALLY AS FATE

3. ANXIETY DEFINED DIALECTICALLY AS GUILT

IV Anxiety of Sin or Anxiety as the Consequence of Sin in the Single Individual

1. ANXIETY ABOUT EVIL

2. ANXIETY ABOUT THE GOOD (THE DEMONIC)

I. Freedom Lost Somatically-Psychically

II. Freedom Lost Pneumatically

V Anxiety as Saving through Faith

Key to References

Original Title Page

Selected Entries from Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers Pertaining to The Concept of Anxiety

EDITORIAL APPENDIX

Acknowledgments

Collation of The Concept of Anxiety in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard’s Collected Works

Bibliographical Note