ABSTRACT
Torsten Bohlin's Sören Kierkegaard. Drag ur hans levnad och personlighetsutveckling was published shortly after his dissertation Sören Kierkegaard's etiska åskådning. The book is largely biographical although not exclusively so. Chapter 1 deals with Kierkegaard's family background, childhood, relation to his father, and student years. Chapter 2 narrates Kierkegaard's engagement to Regine Olsen and the painful breaking off of the engagement. Chapter 3 is the book's only non-biographical chapter and offers an analysis of Kierkegaard's ideas in his aesthetic-philosophical writings. Chapters 4 and 5 resume a predominately biographical character, and deal primarily with the Corsair affair of 1846 and with the final attack on the Danish State Church in 1854-55 respectively. A marked feature of Bohlin's study is its psychological approach. Bohlin's psychological approach to Kierkegaard accords with a general psychologically oriented scholarship that was in vogue at the Theological Faculty of Uppsala University during the first decades of the twentieth century.
