ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at Kierkegaard’s bitterness and misogyny, his hatred of established church and misanthropy as symptomatic of his denied sexuality that culminates in this outward aggressive hatred to all those that were not ‘spiritual’ on his terms. The final phase of Kierkegaard’s life is marked by its lack of human attachment; it is here that his love for God and hatred of humanity reaches its zenith. Nearing the end of his short life Kierkegaard’s negative view of sexuality, and of all earthly life for that matter, has come to the forefront of his writing. These significant changes in his attitude towards sexuality and marriage, along with his increased irritability and anger towards the world can be understood, I believe, in terms of the unconscious projections that arise from the anima that has not been integrated into consciousness. And so, the anima, denied its conscious integration, remains in the unconscious as the forbidden feminine. Desperate for conscious expression (as all repressed material of shadow is) it harasses Kierkegaard with pathological symptoms, of which his increased irritability and anger, and his melancholic depression are examples.
