ABSTRACT

Søren Kierkegaard själv. Psykoanalytiska läsningar was issued in 2000 by the fairly decent-sized publisher Carlsson Bokförlag. The author, Lis Lind, was born in Denmark in 1939 and educated in Stockholm, where she later became a psychoanalyst and specialist in general psychiatry. Generally speaking, Lind's project represents yet another contribution to what has become a long line of studies in the archaeology of Kierkegaard's person, but what differentiates her particular approach from many of those that have come before is that she employs the tools of psychoanalysis to carry out her digging. First, Lind claims that from his early years up until his death Kierkegaard wrestled with the turbulent force of an unruly libido. Second, Lind attempts to bring to light what she sees as the pathology in Kierkegaard's perpetual ploy of hiding and deception. As regards reception, Lind's book attracted some initial attention in Scandinavia with assessments of its value dividing largely along disciplinary lines.