CriticaLink | Lacan: The Mirror Stage | Terms

Manifesting itself in many forms ranging from constant worry to debilitating attacks of panic, anxiety is a generalized fear or sense of dread that in itself can constitute a neurosis and can also accompany other neuroses such as obessional neurosis and hysteria. Anxiety frequently has no specific object; a persistant or recurring fear that does have particular object (for example, heights, open spaces, or speaking in public) is a phobia.

• Baldwin, James Mark
• Bosch, Hieronymus
• Bühler, Charlotte
• Caillois, Roger
• Freud, Anna
• Hegel, G.W.F.
• Köhler, Wolfgang
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude
• Wallon, Henri

• Aha-Erlebnis
• anxiety
• captation
• Cogito
• defenses of the ego
• fragmented body
• Gestalt
• Ideal-I
• identification
• imago
• Innenwelt
• legendary psychasthenia
• libido
• méconnaissance
• mirror stage
• neurosis
• object
• obsession
• other
• Oedipus complex
• perception consciousness system
• phobia
• primary narcissism
• psychosis
• subject
• transitivism
• Umwelt
• Verneinung