Anxiety
The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, in "The Concept of Anxiety" (1844), described anxiety or dread associated with the "dizziness of freedom" and suggested the possibility for positive resolution of anxiety through the self-conscious exercise of responsibility and choosing. In "Art and Artist" (1932), the psychologist Otto Rank wrote that the psychological trauma of birth was the pre-eminent human symbol of existential anxiety and encompasses the creative person's simultaneous fear of – and desire for – separation, individuation, and differentiation.
Two Minor Ethical-Religious Essays
Two Minor Ethical-Religious Essays (original Danish title: "Tvende ethisk-religieuse Smaa-Afhandlinger") is a work by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, under the pseudonym H.H., written in 1847 and published on May 19, 1849. Kierkegaard wrote a book entitled "A Cycle of Ethical-Religious Essays" but chose to publish these two essays as a separate piece while leaving the rest unpublished. The unpublished work would eventually become "The Book on Adler". The work is in dual authorship with his signed work "Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits", also completed in 1847.