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Sat 10 Mar, 2007 02:40 pm
Shut-upness is what we today call repression. Kierkegaard recognized a "lofty shut-upness" and a "mistaken shut-upness". It is important that a child be reared in a lofty shut-upness, i.e. reserve, because it represents an ego-controlled and self-confident perception of the world.
Mistaken shut-upness, however, results "in too much blockage, too much anxiety, too much effort to face up to experience by an organism that has been overburdened and weakened in its own controls
more automatic repression by an essentially closed personality". Good is openness to new possibilities and evil is closed to such possibility.
Shut-upness is called, by Kierkegaard, "the lie of character". "It is easy to see that shut-upness eo ipso signifies a lie, or, if you prefer, untruth. But untruth is precisely unfreedom
the elasticity of freedom is consumed in the service of close reserve
Close reserve was the effect of the negating retrenchment of the ego in the individuality."
Oh shut up, your shut-upness :wink:
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