Twin Peaks and Kierkegaard: An Introduction

"David Lynch’s Twin Peaks invites numerous points of comparison with—and analysis in terms of—the work of Søren Kierkegaard. This should hardly surprise us, as Lynch himself has much in common with the Danish philosopher-poet. He is, first of all, a master ironist who knows how to play with vagueness and indeterminacy to great effect. He also gives his audience the space to interpret his work without disruptive guidance—compare this to the authorial distance Kierkegaard effects through the use of pseudonyms and his claim to have “no opinion about them except as a third party.”..."

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