Abstract
To start, I shall briefly comment upon the distinction between fear and anxiety often associated with Freud, where fear is understood as “a reaction to a real or threatened danger,” and anxiety as “a reaction to an unreal or imagined danger.”1
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© 2011 Valérie de Courville Nicol
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de Courville Nicol, V. (2011). Analyzing Fear and Desire. In: Social Economies of Fear and Desire. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137010377_2
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