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Book reviews with a most unusual devotion. Many of A KIERKEGAARD ANTHOLOGY. Edited by these students and commentators have Robert Bretall. 487 pp. 1946. Prince- themselves been religious workers. A not- tion University Press. ~;5. able exception is Karl Jaspers, German psy- chopathologist and philosopher, who was Kierkegaard is a Danish religious phi- greatly influenced by Kierkegaard and losopher who lived in 'Copenhagen from most of whose writings still await transla- 1813 to 1855. During his short life-span tion into English. of 42 years he wrote about twenty books. In spite of this considerable output, he was Kierkegaard's chief interest to us as an- almost completely forgotten for many years alysts comes from the fact that he was after his death. In the last two years his himself a troubled soul who early in his name has been mentioned in the newspa- life as an author set out to "analyze" him- pers as the father of "existential philoso- self and who in his long self-examination phy" now popular in France. focused his interest on certain basic psy- chological problems and particularly on His most important works have appear- one's relationship to oneself. ed in English translation only in the last ten http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
1947 The Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01871705
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with a most unusual devotion. Many of A KIERKEGAARD ANTHOLOGY. Edited by these students and commentators have Robert Bretall. 487 pp. 1946. Prince- themselves been religious workers. A not- tion University Press. ~;5. able exception is Karl Jaspers, German psy- chopathologist and philosopher, who was Kierkegaard is a Danish religious phi- greatly influenced by Kierkegaard and losopher who lived in 'Copenhagen from most of whose writings still await transla- 1813 to 1855. During his short life-span tion into English. of 42 years he wrote about twenty books. In spite of this considerable output, he was Kierkegaard's chief interest to us as an- almost completely forgotten for many years alysts comes from the fact that he was after his death. In the last two years his himself a troubled soul who early in his name has been mentioned in the newspa- life as an author set out to "analyze" him- pers as the father of "existential philoso- self and who in his long self-examination phy" now popular in France. focused his interest on certain basic psy- chological problems and particularly on His most important works have appear- one's relationship to oneself. ed in English translation only in the last ten

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The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Dec 1, 1947

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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