Phobia, a Barrier Against Dread
Grivet-Shillito,
Phobia, a Barrier Against Dread - 1998.
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After a survey of the most well-known phobia theories and the difficulties presented by this pathology, the author cites a clinical case study as the basis for a hypothesis that a specific affect, fright, underlies phobia. Fright, a component of what Jung called the “numinous”, is a vector of everything that is heterogeneous to the ego, the awareness, and the subject’s history. It thus follows that fright, as long as it is channeled, can be a differentiation factor. In the case reported, the effect of the therapy was to bare the dark side of the self which fright had served both to dissimulate and to express.
Phobia, a Barrier Against Dread - 1998.
25
After a survey of the most well-known phobia theories and the difficulties presented by this pathology, the author cites a clinical case study as the basis for a hypothesis that a specific affect, fright, underlies phobia. Fright, a component of what Jung called the “numinous”, is a vector of everything that is heterogeneous to the ego, the awareness, and the subject’s history. It thus follows that fright, as long as it is channeled, can be a differentiation factor. In the case reported, the effect of the therapy was to bare the dark side of the self which fright had served both to dissimulate and to express.
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