Civilisation and Fear : Anxiety and the Writing of the Subject
ISBN: 9781443838283
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Literature; Psychology;

Paradoxically, if nature has always been a source of fear, civilisation OCo its other and at the same time the epitome of progress and order OCo has not only doubled fear itself, but also added its new sister, anxiety. In effect, the notions of civilisation, fear and anxiety can hardly be separated. Fear OCo either linked Other anxiety or distinct from it OCo lies at the foundation of civilisation, which as much promises to shelter us from these afflictions as it does proliferate them. Confronted no l..."


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