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By Ivan Ward

Phobias are universal, an intrinsic a part of transforming into up. yet serious grownup phobia includes anything intensely irrational - the anxiousness on the sight of a bird's feather, the concept of crossing a bridge. utilizing daily event, horror tales, Hitchcock's cinema, and the cultural background of racism, Phobia illuminates the person and social nightmare global of phobic phenomena.

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19 With the awakening of the repressed impulse, emotion becomes flesh. What happens next? Freud’s account would lead us to suggest three different sources for the construction of the phobic object. 20 In Freud’s world, emotions are dangerous. It’s as simple as that. It seems such an old-fashioned view that we are surprised when we realise it’s true. I can love too much, be too greedy, plague myself with envy and hate. But it’s all part of ‘me’. In projecting the emotion, I am attempting to rid myself of bits of myself – dangerous bits that might be attacked if I kept them inside and recognised them as my own.

Then there was the middle of the bridge, which seemed to be the point of greatest fearful anticipation. The edge of the bridge was terrifying, as was the gap between the two bridges. 50 Analytic investigation might enable us to find a dominant anxiety, but I suspect it is more likely we 62 THE FUNCTION OF PHOBIAS would find that anxieties from all phases of development can happily coexist. Moreover, a phobia is constructed from private meanings and unique experiences. Each element weaves itself into a story of everyday life that reveals longforgotten passions and underlying anxiety.

Phobias have both intra-psychic and interpersonal functions. Intra-psychically: 63 PHOBIA ● They are a vehicle for hateful and aggressive feelings. ● They help temporarily to circumvent the problem of ambivalence. ● They condense anxieties into a ‘knowable’ form and give some measure of control over them. ● They help stabilise phantasy activity and legitimate it. 51 The central feature of avoidance in phobic phenomena hints at a connection to obsessional rituals. Freud saw the repetitive ‘undoing’ of obsessional rituals as a defence against ‘temptation’ – that is to say, the enactment of an unconscious phantasy – and against the impulses that lead to temptation.

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