Abstract

FEIJOO, Ana Maria López Calvo de  and  PROTASIO, Myriam Moreira. Rewriting the Path of Existential Psychology: A Return to Kierkegaard. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.spe, pp. 1-13. ISSN 2359-0769.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5020/23590777.RS.V21IESP1.E9303.

This study aims to show that existential psychology and its repercussions on the clinic begin with the thought of Søren Aaybe Kierkegaard (1813-1855). We defend that there is a previous, forgotten, and, therefore, the unexplored narrative of psychology that constitutes the conditions of possibility of the existential perspective. A rereading of Kierkegaard's psychological works allows us to rewrite another path in psychology, which takes place outside what is better known and disseminated. Through a narrative review of the literature of authors who constituted their understanding of existential psychology referring to the thought of Kierkegaard, we conclude that the appropriations of this philosopher's theses occur in different ways, according to the epistemological perspective that inspires them: empirical psychology, existential-humanist psychology, and existential psychology. With this study, we identified that the elements that differentiate these perspectives, both concerning the formulation of psychology and clinical psychology, are, respectively, the concepts of human freedom and subjectivity and the understanding of the relationship.

Keywords : Søren Kierkegaard; existential psychology; psychological clinic; existential-humanist psychology; empirical psychology.

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