IDENTITÉ MÉLANCOLIQUE ET BLESSURE COUPABLE CHEZ KIERKEGAARD
MELANCHOLIC IDENTITY AND GUILTY WOUND IN KIERKEGAARD

Summary/Abstract: Melancholic Identity and Guilty Wound in Kierkegaard. The kierkegaardian melancholy deploys itself confusingly from the self-reflective eroticism of the „pureˮ aesthete to the kenotic pain of the religious fulfillment. In all of its occurrences, it falls under the identity perpetually (re)constructed of the individual – the only ones that seem to overcome it are the superindividual knights of faith. But the identity, either a metaphysical incognito or an abstract representation of the (non)relation between body and soul, is melancholic as such because it incorporates the secret of an originary wound. The nostalgic reenactment of this enigmatic trauma by way of writing prevents the self-annihilation of the secluded and despaired subject – always guilty of itself –, whereas it also sentences him to the confinement of his inadequacy in terms of religious truth.

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