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The author intends to investigate anxiety from a phenomenological perspective. The paper is divided into two sections. In the first section the author examines the notion of anxiety through a critical discussion of Hermann Schmitz’s account. In Schmitz’s view, anxiety occurs at a very specific moment: Anxiety arises from the tension between one’s own intention to move away and the impossibility of performing this action. Schmitz conceives of anxiety in terms of an impeded impulse to flee, to go away [gehindertes Weg!]. In the second section the author attempts to offer a positive description of a phenomenology of anxiety by highlighting how the dimensions of phantasy [Phantasie] and the anticipation of the future play a fundamental role in our experience of anxiety.
In so doing the author shows the limits of the Schmitzian approach to anxiety
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