# Choice, Anxiety, and Despair

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Kierkegaard investigates how freedom can appear as anxiety and how a person can fail to become a self through forms of despair. These conditions are not merely clinical labels: they describe ethical and spiritual relations to possibility, responsibility, dependence, and self-understanding.

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