Abstract

FEIJOO, Ana Maria Lopez Calvo de  and  PROTASIO, Myriam Moreira. Existential analysis: a psychology inspired by Kierkegaard. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2011, vol.63, n.3, pp.72-88. ISSN 1809-5267.

This article aims to find elements of existential psychology in the thinking of Sören Kierkegaard. We believe that existential philosophy, as developed by the Danish philosopher, can provide elements not only for a critique of the experimental way in which psychology was formed in his time, but also as an elaboration of psychology that considers concrete existence, in other words, that resurrects the sensitive in existence. The life´s project of this Danish thinker, as he himself confessed, was centered much more on the mobilization of each man, in the sense that each one should realize that life was an illusion, rather than to prepare a contemplative philosophy or a system. In the same way that Kierkegaard was concerned with the loss of man in relation to himself, the task of the clinician of existential psychology is to maintain this warning with regard to those who seek them out, gripped by anguish and by despair when faced with the inconstant character of existence. Existential analysis as a proposal for clinical psychology consists in this.

Keywords : Clinical psychology; Sören Kierkegaard; Existence; Indirect communication.

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