Abstract

Drawing from a quotation about the paradox of faith from Fear and Trembling, signed by the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, a reflection is proposed around the way in which subjectivity is conceived of by following the hints that are to be found in Søren Kierkegaard’s works. Subjectivity emerges there in a crossroad that is at once existential – since it implies the three dimensions of existence –the aesthetical, the ethical, and the religious– and discursive, since it implies the three dimensions of the articulation of existence –literary, philosophical, and dogmatic. It is suggested that at this very double crossroad, another form of thought emerges, the backbone, the vigor, and the strength of which is precisely the backbone, the vigor, and the strength of negativity which works the absurd for reason.