Henrik Jøker Bjerre (Aalborg University)


The Ventriloquist: Kierkegaard's Extimate Voices


Was the authorial voice in Kierkegaard's works his own or did he delegate it to his pseudonyms? Drawing on sources in philosophy, psychoanalysis and literary studies, I will claim that it was both his own and not his own—and that his authorship is therefore best compared to the figure of the ventriloquist, rather than to that of the prompter, like he himself suggested.