FUNDAMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY ( FP )
Part I
HYPERphysical MATERIALISM
(The nature of PSYCHE)
Chapter 6.
SLEEP, DREAM, SLEEPLESSNESS
6.2. The NATURE of routine phenomena
6.2.10. FEAR and FRIGHT
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The notions of fear and fright ought to be distinguished as two different emotions.
A fear is always concerned to events either probable in the future (what horror, it - something - can happen, for example: that I'll be mistaken), or has already not happen in the past (what horror, that it - something - could happen).Fear is an emotion induced by mentalum SM, by own thought, a result of reflection RMA (fig.).
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A fright is a result of a momentary feeling of discomfort, a state similar to pain or hunger, is a direct reaction to an event-provoker, is a reflection RPA (fig.), advancing a thought of this event, reaction in which mentalum SM does not participate directly. This instinctive
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(emotional and, probably, moving) reaction is prepared by mentalum ∇M of a biological species ∇ as the whole (by its egregor Ξ; see section 7.3) during its phylogenesis.
A fright can become a source, a starting factor for fear. So a person, having been frightened by a dog, can be afraid in further of all dogs.
A fear can be considered as the derivative emotion from anger, the protest, the requirement, as emotion of suppressed anger, emotional reaction to impossibility to demostrate anger, to impossibility to change a situation which has provoked anger.
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