Through the biblical story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac, Kierkegaard, as a great explorer of human psychology, looks into the anxiety that must have been present in Abraham when God commanded him to offer his son as a human sacrifice.
That is to say, the first part of the book takes a lyrical form, while the second and much more extensive part takes a dialectical one, where there is a back and forth discussion of ideas, in which a thesis and an opposing antithesis resolve themselves into a synthesis. The subtitle of the book is Dialectical Lyric. The purpose of this is not to confuse the reader, but rather to make him come up with his own conclusions. Kierkegaard is famous for having multiple pseudonyms.
Fear and Trembling is a book by Søren Kierkegaard written under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio.
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