BCDU (2014) – angústia

(BCDU  )

The term “anxiety” is etymologically related to that of “narrowness,” or “tightening,” as are the corresponding Romance and Germanic words, and this can still be sensed in the works of Friedrich Schelling   and Jakob Böhme. However, it is above all its elective relationship with nothingness ( as non-being ) and the possibility of the pure state that Heidegger, following Kierkegaard  , will emphasize. That Angst, unlike Furcht ( fear ), is “without object” is no less crucial for psychoanalysis.

In a note in section 40 of Being and Time  , Heidegger refers to Kierkegaard  ’s 1844 book, The Concept of Anxiety, declaring that no one had gone as far as Kierkegaard   in the analysis of this phenomenon as it appears in the theological context of a “psychological” exposition of the problem of hereditary sin.