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PONDE, Danit Zeava Falbel. The concept of fear in Winnicott. Winnicott e-prints [online]. 2011, vol.6, n.2, pp.82-131. ISSN 1679-432X.

This work discusses the concept of fear in D.W. Winnicott in its multiple faces assuming that different meanings of the concept are associated, in etiologic sphere, to emotional maturational process. The bibliographical review of the author followed the term fear and its associated concepts such as phobia, anxiety, panic, night terror, unthinkable agony, nightmare, etc. The research script is divided into two moments: the presentation of the concept of fear in context of the opposition health-sickness and normal-pathology, and in the maturational process temporality. On the first moment, fear is seen as an affective defensive phenomenon that enables the person to face the world and communicate his/her emotional condition. Therefore it may be considered as diagnostic material. Thus, fear is not taken as a psychopathological prejudice, but as a tool that allow us to understand the existential condition of the human being as such. It is an universal phenomenon whose affection or non-affection, regarding its differents contexts, grades and levels of intensity, reveals the normal or pathological condition of the person. On the second moment, the tipology of fear has its origins in the stages of emotional maturational process which comprehends interpersonal relations between mother and son in the absolute dependency, relative dependency and in triangular formation during relative independency. Such types of fear are then configurated as fear related to psychological survival and identity, fear of separation from the mother, fear related to love-hate ambivalence and the edipic complex. The research on fear, such as this one, has its origins in the clinical observation of patient suffering, and shall be oriented towards it, where it shall find its deeper justification.

Palabras clave : fear; panic; phobia; anxiety; psychoanalysis.

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