Notes on Kierkegaard’s: The Concept of Anxiety

The infinite possibility of being able (awakened by the prohibiting draws closer for the fact that this possibility indicates a possibility as its consequence. [...]

When we use the expression “objective dread” one might be led to think more especially of the dread felt by innocence, which is the reflex of freedom within itself at the thought of its possibility. [...]

One may liken dread to dizziness. Down into the yawning abyss becomes dizzy. But the reason for it is just as much his eye as it is the precipice. For suppose he had not looked down. Thus dread is the dizziness of freedom which occurs when the spirit would posit the synthesis, and freedom then gazes down into its own possibility, grasping at finiteness to sustain itself.

In this, dizziness freedom succumbs. [...]

The possible corresponds precisely to the future. For freedom the possible is the future; and for time the future is the possible. Corresponding to both of these in the individual life is dread. A precise and correct linguistic usage associates therefore dread and the future. [source]