Notes on the concept of fear

Vol. 33 No. 1 (2023)
Published: 27 April 2023
fear, violence, agency, narcissism, aggression, shame
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Giuseppe Civitarese
gcivitarese@gmail.com
Società Italiana di Psicoanalisi (SPI), American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), Italy.

To understand fear and the violent reactions that can result from it, it is necessary to take into account the unconscious dynamics of validation or mutual recognition in social life. It may happen that extreme acts are triggered by an overwhelming experience of shame from whose yoke the subject tries to free himself by regaining an instantaneous sense of agency even if through acts that are destructive in themselves

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Civitarese G. Notes on the concept of fear. Confinia Cephalal [Internet]. 2023 Apr. 27 [cited 2025 Feb. 23];33(1):e2023003. Available from: https://www.confiniacephalalgica.com/site/article/view/14294

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