The Melancholic Irony of Kierkegaard
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The Socratic truth is in no way inferior to the Christian one in
Kierkegaard’s view. The fundamental difference between the two is that
whereas the later develops by means of a donation and of a specific
dialectic as such, the former is hidden within the negative and antidialectical
discourse of irony. We can therefore maintain that irony always
pertains to the melancholic dimension of existence. My work aims to
consider irony as a melancholic negativity, insofar as it is closely related to
the demonic silence and void and as it rejects the wholeness of
philosophical language. Sickness and health, symptom and remedy, the
Kierkegaardian irony is melancholic because it perpetually suffers from its
own re-opened wound, which allows us to interpret it from a
psychoanalytical standpoint. Thus, the affinity between Kierkegaard and
psychoanalysis sustains a Lacanian approach to the melancholic irony, in
order to clarify its function in pinpointing the “real” truth of existence
through a resistance to language.
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