Identity Crisis and Self-Identity: A Reinterpretation of Karl Jaspers’s Transcendental Philosophy and Existenze

  • Ikechukwu Monday Osebor Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria
  • Grace Ogelenya Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58709/niujss.v8i4.1547

Abstract

Karl Jaspers’ existentialist philosophy revolves around man and his concrete existence. His ideas of philosophical faith and transcendence met differing opinions due to their metaphysical nature.  The philosophical faith is theistic, and the struggle against self-identity, which led to the identity crisis. The identity crisis is a psychosocial conflict of the mind.  The effects of identity crisis include posttraumatic disorder (PTSD). PTSD reawakens traumatic memory, creating depression, anxiety and linked to identity crisis. Using the method of hermeneutics, this paper suggests the application of Karl Jaspers’s philosophy of existence to solving the problem of the identity crisis.


Keywords: Philosophical Faith, Transcendence, Existenz, Self-identity, identity crisis

Published
2022-12-31
How to Cite
OSEBOR, Ikechukwu Monday; OGELENYA, Grace. Identity Crisis and Self-Identity: A Reinterpretation of Karl Jaspers’s Transcendental Philosophy and Existenze. NIU Journal of Social Sciences, [S.l.], v. 8, n. 4, p. 131-134, dec. 2022. ISSN 3007-1690. Available at: <https://www.kampalajournals.ac.ug/ojs/index.php/niujoss/article/view/1547>. Date accessed: 10 june 2026. doi: https://doi.org/10.58709/niujss.v8i4.1547.
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Vol 8 No 4 (2022): NIU Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 8 No. 4, December 2022
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