The foregoing has thrown light on an under-examined term in Kierkegaard's descriptive armory and developed an instructive reading in which it plays a central role. Interesse, a term generally ignored or rolled into other, more prominent terms in Kierkegaard's lexicon of mind, has been shown both to have a distinct, independent meaning, and to play a crucial role in Kierkegaard's phenomenology of moral experience. An important and distinct sense of interesse has been recovered from the schematic accounts of consciousness and the ontology of selfhood and shown to ramify through these structures and the phenomena that attend them.