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Thus he comments that anxiety is that which exists in the interior of the body when the body is overcome with phallic jouissance.<ref>Lacan, 1974-5: seminar of 17 December 1974</ref><ref>anxiety 41, 73 [[Seminar XI]]</ref>
 
 
Three types: reality (anxiety about the external world), normal or moral (anxiety about the superego's (originally, the parents moral consciousness) punishing should's and oughts), and neurotic (anxiety that a repressed sexual wish might surface). Anxiety is felt only by the ego and might have hereditary components. In his later work Freud referred to anxiety as a danger signal.
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