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==Psychiatry==
"[[Anxiety]]" has long been recognised in [[psychiatry]] as one of the most common [[symptom]]s of [[mental]] disorder.
[[PsychiatricPsychiatrist]] descriptions s also distinguish between generalised [[anxiety]] states, when "free-[[floating]] anxiety" is [[present]] most of the [[anxietytime]] generally refer to both mental phenomena (apprehension, worry) and bodily phenomena (breathlessnes"[[panic]] attacks, palpitations" which are "intermittent episodes of acute anxiety."<ref>Hughes, muscle tensionJennifer. ''An [[Outline]] of Modern Psychiatry'', fatigueChichester: Wiley, dizziness, sweating and tremor)1991. pp. 48-9</ref>
==Sigmund Freud==The [[PsychiatristGerman]] term employed by [[Freud]] (''[[Angst]]'') can have the [[psychiatric]]s also distinguish between generalised [[anxietysense]] statesdescribed above, when "free-floating anxiety" but is present most of the timeby no means an exclusively technical term, and "panic attacks," which are "intermittent episodes of acute anxiety[[being]] also in common use in ordinary [[speech]]."<ref>Hughes, 1981: 48-9</ref>
From 1884 to 1925 he argued that [[neurotic]] [[anxiety]] is simply a transformation of [[sexual]] [[libido]] that has not been adequately [[discharge]]d.
In 1926, [[Freud]] argued that [[anxiety]] is a reaction to a "[[trauma]]tic [[situation]]," an [[experience ]] of [[helplessness]] in the face of an accumulation of [[excitation ]] that cannot be [[discharge]]d.
[[Trauma]]tic situations are precipitated by "situations of [[danger]]" such as [[birth]], [[loss]] of the [[mother]] as [[object]], [[loss]] of the [[object]]'s [[love]] and, above all, [[castration]]. [[Freud]] distinguishes between "automatic anxiety," when the [[anxiety]] arises directly as a result of a [[trauma]]tic situation, and "anxiety as signal," when the [[anxiety]] is actively reproduced by the [[ego]] as a warning of an anticipated situation of danger. ---
[[Freud]] distinguishes between "[[anxiety|automatic anxiety]]," when the [[anxiety]] arises directly as a result of a [[trauma]]tic situation, and "[[anxiety|anxiety as signal]]," when the [[anxiety]] is actively reproduced by the [[ego]] as a warning of an anticipated situation of danger.
==Jacques Lacan==
In his early work, [[Lacan]] relates [[anxiety]] to the [[threat]] of [[fragmentation]] which the [[subject]] confronts in the [[mirror stage]].
It is only long after the [[mirror stage]], he argues, that these [[fantasy|fantasies]] of bodily dismemberment coalesce around the [[penis]], giving rise to [[castration]] [[anxiety]].<ref>Lacan, {{1938: }} p. 44</ref>
He also [[links ]] [[anxiety]] with the [[fear]] of being engulfed by the devouring [[mother]].
This theme (with its distinctly [[Klein]]ian tone) remains an important aspect of [[Lacan]]'s account of [[anxiety]] thereafter, and marks an [[apparent ]] [[difference ]] between [[Lacan]] and [[Freud]]: whereas [[Freud]] posits that one of the causes of [[anxiety]] is [[separation]] from the [[mother]], [[Lacan]] argues that it is precisely a [[lack]] of such [[separation]] which induces [[anxiety]].
==Real==
After 1953, [[Lacan]] comes increasingly to articulate [[anxiety]] with his [[concept]] of the [[real]], a [[trauma]]tic element which remains [[external]] to [[symbolisation]], and hence which [[lacks]] any possible mediation.
==Imaginary==
As well as linking [[anxiety]] with the [[real]], [[Lacan]] also locates it in the [[imaginary]] [[order]] and contrasts it with [[guilt]], which he situates in the [[symbolic]].<ref>{{L}} "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Fetishism: The Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real]]" (with W. Granoff), 1956. M. [[Balint]] (ed.), ''Perversions: [[Psychodynamics]] and [[Therapy]]'', New York: Random House, [[London]]: Tavistock. pp. 272-3</ref>
[[Lacan]] argues that [[anxiety]] is the radical danger which the [[subject]] attempts to avoid at all costs, and that the various [[subject]]ive [[formation]]s encountered in [[psychoanalysis]], from [[phobia]]s to [[fetishism]], are protections against [[anxiety]].<ref>{{S4}} p. 23</ref>
Even a [[phobia]] is preferable to [[anxiety]];<ref>{{S4}} p. 345</ref> a [[phobia]] at least replaces [[anxiety]] with [[fear]] (which is focused on a [[particular]] [[object]] and thus may be [[symbolic|symbolically]] worked-through).<ref>{{S4}} p. 243-6</ref>
[[Anxiety]] is this point where the [[subject]] is suspended between a moment where he no longer [[knows]] where he is and a [[future]] where he will never again be able to refind himself.<ref>{{S4}} p.226</ref>
Consequently, [[castration]], far from being the principal source of [[anxiety]], is actually what saves the [[subject]] from [[anxiety]].
[[Anxiety]] is a way to sustain [[desire]] when the [[object]] is [[missing]].
[[Desire]] is a remedy for [[anxiety]], easier to bear than [[anxiety]].<ref>{{S8}} p.430</ref> He also argues that the source of [[anxiety]] is not always internal to the [[subject]], but can often come from another, just as it is transmitted from one animal to another in a herd; "if anxiety is a signal, it means it can come from another."<ref>{{S8}} p.427</ref>
==Truth==In the [[seminar]] of 1962-3, entitled simply '"[[Anxiety]]'", [[Lacan]] argues that [[anxiety]] is an [[affect]], not an [[affect|emotion]], and furthermore that it is the only [[affect]] which is beyond all [[doubt]], which is not [[truth|deceptive]].<ref>{{S11}} p.41</ref>
==''Objet (petit) a''==Whereas [[Freud]] distinguished between [[fear]] (which is focused on a specific object) and [[anxiety]] (which is not), [[Lacan]] now argues that [[anxiety ]] is not without an [[object]] (''n'est pas sans [[objet]]''); it simply involves a different kind of [[object]], an [[object]] which cannot be [[symbolise]]d in the same way as all other [[object]]s.
This [[object]] is ''[[objet petit a]]'', the [[object-cause of desire]], and [[anxiety]] appears when something appears in the [[place ]] of this [[object]].
[[Anxiety]] arises when the [[subject]] is confronted by the [[desire]] of the [[Other]] and does not know what [[object]] he is for that [[desire]].
It is also in this [[seminar]] that [[Lacan]] links [[anxiety]] to the concept of [[lack]].
All [[desire]] arises from [[lack]], and [[anxiety]] arises when this [[lack]] is itself [[lack]]ing; [[anxiety]] is the [[lack]] of a [[lack]].
[[Anxiety]] is not the [[absence]] of the [[breast]], but its enveloping [[presence]]; it is the possibility of its [[absence]] which is, in fact, that which saves us from [[anxiety]].
[[Acting out]] and [[passage to the act]] are last [[defence]]s against [[anxiety]].
[[Anxiety]] is also linked to the [[mirror stage]].
Even in the usually comforting experience of [[seeing ]] one's [[reflection ]] in the [[mirror ]] there can occur a moment when the [[specular image]] is modified and suddenly seems strange to us. In this way, [[Lacan]] links [[anxiety]] to [[Freud]]'s concept of the ''[[uncanny]]''.<ref>Freud, 1919h</ref> --
In this way, [[Lacan]] links [[anxiety]] to [[Freud]]'s concept of the ''[[uncanny]]''.<ref>{{F}} "[[The Uncanny]]", 1919h. [[SE]] XIV, 161.</ref>
==''Jouissance''==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: seminar of 17 December 1974</ref><ref>anxiety 41]]'', published in ''[[Ornicar?]]'', nos. 2-5, 73 1975. [[Seminar XI]]of 17 December 1974</ref>
==See Also==
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* [[Absence]]
* [[Castration]]
* [[Desire]]
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* [[Fragmented body]]
* ''[[Jouissance]]''
* [[Lack]]
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* [[Mirror stage]]
* [[Mother]]
* [[Other]]
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* [[Neurosis]]
* [[Phobia]]
* [[Structure]]
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