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The distinction Heidegger introduces between fear and anxiety involves the status of the subject in relation to its own “nothingness.” Lacan remembered this point when he considered anxiety as the effect that engages the truth of the subject, meaning its “lack of being” and its debt, which makes it a subject “barred from desire.” Heidegger adds the concept of awe, which is the product of man’s distress in the face of the absence of meaning that arises with the technical-scientific planning of everything. Unfortunately, September 11th, 2001 testifies to the relevance of these analyses.