CHAPTER ONE Fear, phobia, and cowardice; SIX MAIN FEARS OFOUR LIVES; CHAPTER TWO Fear of breakdown; CHAPTER THREE Fear of aloneness; CHAPTER FOUR Fear of intimacy; CHAPTER FIVE Fear of injury; CHAPTER SIX Fear of success; CHAPTER SEVEN Fear of death; EPILOGUE; CHAPTER EIGHT Fear across the life span.

This volume provides a cross-disciplinary examination of fear, that most unruly of our emotions, by offering a broad survey of the psychological, biological, and philosophical basis of fear in historical and contemporary contexts. The contributors, leading figures in clinical psychology, neuroscience, the social sciences, and the humanities, consider categories of intentionality, temporality, admixture, spectacle, and politics in evaluating conceptions of fear.

Topics include clinical-analogue studies investigating the renewal of fear; psychophysiological reactions and brain activity in phobic subjects; an experimental study investigating right-wing authoritarianism and the reduction of fear; and the extinction of fear-motivated responses used in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and other fear-motivated learnings.

Contents: Stephen Hessel: Introduction Early Modern Reflections on Fear Madeleine Harwood: "Witches, live witches! The house is full of witches!" The Concept of Fear in Early Modern Witchcraft Drama Stephen Hessel: Horrifying Quixote: The Thin Line between Fear and Laughter Feminised Fear Laura Hubner: Pan's Labyrinth, Fear and the Fairy Tale Susan Yi Sencindiver: Sexing or Specularising the Doppelganger: A Recourse to Poe's "Ligeia" Fear at the Movies Steven Allen: Bringing the Dead to Life - Animation and the Horrific Eric K.W. Yu: A Traditional Vengeful Ghost or the Machine in a Ghost? Narrative Dynamics, Horror Effects, and the Posthuman in Ringu Fear, Power, and Politics Michele Huppert: Terrified and Terrifying: An Examination of the Defensive Organisation of Fundamentalism C. Ferguson McGregor: Rending the Terror-Horror Nexus: The Manifest Lie and its Role in Facilitating Acts of Illegitimate Political Violence Societal Fear Henriette Dahan Kalev: Zionism, Post-Zionism and Fear of Arabness Belinda Morrissey and Kristen Davis: Fear and Horror in a Small Town: The Legacy of the Disappearance of Marilyn Wallman

Coupling robust psychoanalytic theory with concrete democratic practice, Fear of Breakdown shows how a politics of working through can help counter a politics of splitting, paranoia, and demonization.

Conservative evangelicalism has transformed American politics, working not just through conventional channels, but through subcultures and alternate modes of communication. Within the world of conservative evangelicalism is a "Religion of Fear," a critical impulse that dramatizes cultural andpolitical issues in frightening ways that contrast "orthodox" behaviors and beliefs with those linked to darkness, fear, and demonology. Jason C. Bivins offers close examinations of several popular evangelical cultural creations including the Left Behind novels, church-sponsored Halloween "HellHouses," Jack Chick's sensational comic tracts, and anti-rock and rap rhetoric and censorship.