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Explanatory quote from IEP: “Having thus, in his opinion, solved all the problems of philosophy, Wittgenstein became an elementary school teacher in rural Austria . . . In 1929 he returned to Cambridge to teach at Trinity College, recognizing that in fact he had more work to do in philosophy.”

To see that quote in context, go to https://iep.utm.edu/wittgens/

For a good journalistic sketch of Wittgenstein’s life, see https://philosophynow.org/issues/87/Ludwig_Wittgenstein_1889-1951

(Regarding the ellipsis in the quote above, it deserves a “Those who don’t know, those who know” meme.)

That really isn’t his fault, though. The historical and biographical consensus is that Kierkegaard suffered from hypergraphia, and thus had a compulsion to write.

Here’s a quote from a paper co-written by a psychiatrist and a theologian:
“In 1974 the American neurologists Waxmann and Geschwind published an article that described the occurrence of the phenomenon of hypergraphia, an excessive compulsion to write, in certain patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. The following year, based on their own and others' observations, they described a specific behavioral syndrome that could occur in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). In 1979 Geschwind described the TLE syndrome as follows: Heightened interest in philosophical, moral, or religious questions, often in striking contrast to the patient's educational background, an increase in religious conversion (or an obstinate insistence upon the absence of religious feeling), hypergraphia (a tendency to write in extraordinarily detailed fashion, often on religious or philosophical subjects), hypos*xuality (reduced s*x drive, sometimes changes in s*xual behavior), and varying degrees of irritability.”

Here is a longer quote from that same paper:
“Kierkegaard has described how he himself was in the grip of an irresistible compulsion to write. "Again, this is something I have to be especially on guard against, for once I get a pen in my hand and some blank paper, then there is a risk that I will go on and on," he wrote to his nephew Henrik Lund.
And with reference to the last of the tales in the _Thousand and One Nights_ Kierkegaard remarked that "as Scheherezade saved her life by telling stories, I save my life or keep alive by being productive." Nowhere did Kierkegaard give as clear an account of his uncontrollable, irresistible compulsion to write as in _The Point of View for My Work as an Author_, specifically in the third chapter, which has the remarkable heading "Governance's Part in My Authorship." Here he states "It seems to me that if I had a winged pen, indeed, ten of them, I still would be unable to keep up with the abundance offered to me." Thus Kierkegaard imagined the possibility of writing with ten winged pens at once. But just as he would be about to begin, something would intervene to stop him: "When I pick up my pen, for a time I cannot--just as one speaks of not being able to move a foot--move my pen; in that state not a line about this relationship is put down on paper. I seem to hear a voice that says to me: Obtuse fellow, what does he think he is; does he not know that obedience is dearer to God than the fat of rams? Do the whole thing as a work assignment. Then I become completely calm; then there is time to write every letter, almost meticulously, with my slower pen." Kierkegaard thus had to be restrained from the all-engulfing passion to write: "I seem to hear a voice speak to me as a teacher speaks to a boy: Now just hold the pen properly and write each letter exactly. Then I can do it, then I dare not do anything else, then I write each word, each line, almost unaware of the next word and the next line. Then, when I read it through later, I find an entirely different satisfaction in it. Even though some glowing expressions perhaps did elude me, what has been produced is something else--it is not the work of the poetic passion or the thinker passion, but of devotion to God, and for me a divine worship." Kierkegaard had been forced to obey.”
(Source: https://www.sorenkierkegaard.nl/artikelen/Engels/072.%20Kierkepilepsy.pdf)

And in a paper published in the Soren Kierkegaard Newsletter in 2005, physician Joseph Brown said the following:
“In 1975 S. G. Waxman and Norman Geschwind noted an inter-ictal (between seizure) symptom complex of approximately fifteen behaviors, “a personality profile” in some of their patients suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy. The behavior complex has become known as the Geschwind syndrome, in honor of the late Harvard neurologist. Among the fifteen are such notable behaviors as “hypergraphia” (in some a 10 fold increase in words used to answer standard short essay questions when compared to normals), hyper-religiosity and altered s*xuality, often accompanied by mood disorders, including overt depression. As one reads this litany, one could conclude it could be called the “Kierkegaard” syndrome or “Adler” syndrome: it also could be called the Dostoevsky or Van Gogh syndrome, or be named after any one of hundreds of geniuses or schizoid personalities whose lives have been compared to the profile since the symptom association was first noted.”
(Source: https://wp.stolaf.edu/kierkegaard/files/2014/03/Newsletter49.pdf)

Joakin Garff, a biographer of Kierkegaard, also suggests that Kierkegaard had hypergraphia. For a link to a review of that work, go to https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v27/n15/jonathan-ree/dancing-in-the-service-of-thought

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