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How Kierkegaard can help you cope with an existential crisis | Psyche Guides

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Stages on Life’s Way. An Artist Resting by the Roadside (1831-32), by Jørgen Roed. Courtesy the National Gallery of Art, Copenhagen Stages on Life’s Way. An Artist Resting by the Roadside (1831-32), by Jørgen Roed. Courtesy the National Gallery of Art, Copenhagen is the author of How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment (2022) and Existentialism and Romantic Love (2015), and co-editor of How to Live a Good Life (2020). Her lecture series Existentialism and the Authentic Life (2024) is available through the Great Courses. She teaches at Columbia University, and is a Thinking Partner with Philosophy at Work. is the author of How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment (2022) and Existentialism and Romantic Love (2015), and co-editor of How to Live a Good Life (2020). Her lecture series Existentialism and the Authentic Life (2024) is available through the Great Courses. She teaches at Columbia University, and is a Thinking Partner wit

Are you exhausted from rushing through life doing the same monotonous things over and over again? Perhaps those things that were once meaningful now seem vacuous, and the passion has burned out. Do you feel that pleasures are short-lived and ultimately disappointing, that your life is a series of fragments punctuated with occasional ecstasies that flare up and then, like a firework, fade into darkness and despair? Perhaps you are lonely or pine for past loves. Or you feel empty and lost in the world, or nauseous and sleep-deprived. Maybe you are still looking for a reason to live, or you…

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