Angst - vor ihr mussen wir uns furchten

Anxiety is a binding agent of human relationships. It constitutes and stabilizes the existing power relations. If these are not to be endangered, it must not lose its significance. The common discourse that defines and establishes relationships is a hierarchical one. Anxiety has a considerable leverage function in this narrative. As a consequence of the disempowerment of aggression in the service of the ego, it remains indispensable for the regulation of hierarchical relationships. The depr...