The Secondary Literature on The Concept of Anxiety: the Italian Contribution By ETTORE ROCCA The secondary literature on The Concept of Anxiety can be divided into three groups. The first is made up of monographs on CA, the second of interpretations of Kierkegaard's authorship based on CA and/or on the notion of anxiety, the third of studies which touch upon CA and the notion of anxiety. I will try to apply this tripartition to the Italian secondary literature. 1. In the first group we can name the small book by Umberto Can- toro Variazioni sullangoscia di Kierkegaard, Padova, Liviana 1948. To- day the volume is of merely historical interest and reflects the official Catholic reading of Kierkegaard immediately after the Second World War. Kierkegaard is identified both with existentialism, romanticism and mysticism. 2. In a series of articles written in the fifties and included in the vol- ume Relazioni e significati. II. Kierkegaard e Thomas Mann, Milano, Lampugnani Nigri 1965, Enzo Paci made of the concept of anxiety the key point of his Kierkegaards reading. In my opinion, Pad's interpre- tation is the principal and most original contribution of the Italian sec- ondary literature on CA. Therefore I will treat it more in detail. The core of Paci's interpretation is the concept of relation. The hu- man being is a "relation between body, soul and spirit." In the rela- tion "there is a more or less completed harmony between body, soul and spirit....Each harmony makes possible a more perfect harmony and reveals, therefore, its imperfection." There is always the possibil- ity of a more organic or harmonic synthesis. "To the extent that this synthesis, albeit possible, is not realized, arises anxiety" (p. 214).