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[[Psychiatric]] descriptions of [[anxiety]] generally refer to both mental phenomena (apprehension, worry) and bodily phenomena (breathlessnes, palpitations, muscle tension, fatigue, dizziness, sweating and tremor).
[[Psychiatrist]]s also distinguish between generalised [[anxiety]] states, when "free-floating anxiety" is present most of the time, and "panic attacks," which are "intermittent episodes of acute anxiety."<ref>Hughes, 1981Jennifer. ''An Outline of Modern Psychiatry'', Chichester: Wiley, 1991. pp. 48-9</ref>
==Sigmund Freud==
Whereas the [[seminar]] of 1962-3 is largely concerned with [[Freud]]'s second theory of [[anxiety]] ([[anxiety]] as [[sign]]al)), in the [[seminar]] of 1974-5 [[Lacan]] appears to return to the first [[Freud]]ian theory of [[anxiety]] ([[anxiety]] as transformed [[libido]]).
Thus he comments that [[anxiety]] is that which exists in the interior of the [[body]] when the [[body]] is overcome with [[phallus|phallic]] ''[[jouissance]]''.<ref>Lacan{{L}} ''[[Seminar XXII|Le Séminaire. Livre XXII. RSI, 1974-5: ]]'', published in ''[[Ornicar?]]'', nos. 2-5, 1975. [[seminarSeminar]] of 17 December 1974</ref>
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