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Single Idea 22224

[filed under theme 23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 3. Angst ]

Full Idea

Anxiety [angst] is the disturbing sense of uncanniness by which Dasein is overtaken (thrownness) when it discovers there is nothing other than its own freedom to sustain its projects (projection), and from which Dasein constantly takes flight (falling).

Gist of Idea

Anxiety is the uncanniness felt when constantly fleeing from asserting one's own freedom

Source

report of Martin Heidegger (Being and Time [1927]) by John D. Caputo - Heidegger p.227

Book Ref

'A Companion to Continental Philosophy', ed/tr. Critchley,S/Schroeder,W [Blackwell 1999], p.227

A Reaction

This seems to be Kierkegaard's idea, unamended. In my experience anxiety only comes when I am forced into making decisions by worldly situations. An 'existential crisis' is a sort of blankness appearing where a future life was supposed to be.

The 18 ideas with the same theme [life permeated by insecurities and meaninglessness]:

20732 If man considers himself as lost and imprisoned in the universe, he will be terrified [Pascal]
22029 Irony is the response to conflicts of involvement and attachment [Schlegel,F, by Pinkard]
22096 Anxiety is not a passing mood, but a response to human freedom [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]
22097 The ultimate in life is learning to be anxious in the right way [Kierkegaard]
21909 Ultimate knowledge is being anxious in the right way [Kierkegaard]
20758 Anxiety is staring into the yawning abyss of freedom [Kierkegaard]
7078 The freedom of the subject means the collapse of moral certainty [Nietzsche, by Critchley]
2876 The thought of suicide is a great reassurance on bad nights [Nietzsche]
21952 Anxiety about death frees me to live my own life [Heidegger, by Wrathall]
22224 Anxiety is the uncanniness felt when constantly fleeing from asserting one's own freedom [Heidegger, by Caputo]
22165 Anxiety reveals the possibility and individuality of Dasein [Heidegger]
20755 Fear concerns the world, but 'anguish' comes from confronting my self [Sartre]
19604 Unlike other creatures, mankind seems lost in nature [Cioran]
19606 We can only live because our imagination and memory are poor [Cioran]
19601 Life is now more dreaded than death [Cioran]
23074 In anxiety people cling to what reinforces it, because it is a deep need [Cioran]
20761 If existence is absurd it can never have a meaning [Beauvoir]
20734 Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits [Aho]