Primal fear

The term primal fear is defined differently by psychoanalysts :

• In 1926 Sigmund Freud described the primal fear as a consequence of the act of childbirth (" primal trauma") and thus all later fears as a kind of reproduction of this primal fear.
• Otto Rank further developed the concept of primal fear and postulated that, based on the primal trauma of birth, humans try to seek the bliss of life in the womb (e.g. through religion, art or philosophy).
• In 1937 and 1945, Karen Horney described a child's fear of being left alone by his or her parents as a primal fear, only to then face helplessly a hostile environment and thus death, nature and the unpredictability of life.

Regardless of this, some authors also use the term outside of the above. Definitions used, e.g. B. "Germans' primeval fear of inflation" or "The primitive fear of the slender of mountains of muscles".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annelie Sachs: Freud's views on fear under the special aspect of the effects of traumatization (1998) on traumatherapie.de. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
2. ↑ About the trauma of childbirth ( memento of September 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on ottorank.com ( Memento of the original of March 3, 2000 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 15, 2012. 
3. ↑ J. Fahrenberg, Ch. Klein, M. Peper: Differential Psychology and Personality Research - text accompanying the lecture (pdf; 1.3 MB). Retrieved April 15, 2012.
4. ^ John F. Crosby, Theories of Anxiety: A Theoretical Perspective (1976). American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 36: 237-248. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
5. ↑ Inflation: the primordial fear of Germans on ard.de. Retrieved May 15, 2016.
6. ↑ Rainer Zitelmann: The primal fear of the slender before the mountains of muscles. August 15, 1996 in: Die Welt online . Retrieved April 15, 2012.