Søren Kierkegaard: Gjentagelsen [Repetition]

Kierkegaard published Repetition [Gjentagelsen] on 16 October 1843, on the same day as Fear and Trembling and Three Edifying Discourses. It is published under the pseudonym Constantin Constantius and has the subtitle “A Venture in Experimenting Psychology”. It bears the epigraph “On wild trees, the flowers are fragrant, on cultivated trees, the fruits” (Flavius Philostratus the Elder).

The book is divided into the following sections: Title, subtitle, pseudonym, epigraph, an untitled report by Constantius, a second part titled “Repetition”, seven letters from the young man addressed to “My Silent Confidant”, incidental observations by Constantius, another