ABSTRACT
Fear is unpleasant, even absurd at times. Every fear a person has lived through leaves an existentially significant trace behind. Fear not only causes to actively worry about our survival, it also instils the inextinguishable experience of vulnerability and death. Indicating fear appears when a person encounters a dangerous enemy or situation. A disturbance of foundational essentials causes fundamental fear. Fundamental fear develops within this sphere. Fundamental fear has the tendency to spread into all areas of a person's life. Fundamental fear refers to this existential question: "How do we deal creatively with the things that are given to us?" Alfried Langle's existential-analytic model of the fundamental motivations supplies an understanding of biographical "issues" and topics, of the fear of expectation and of fundamental fear. The purpose of fear is the "activation" of the person. Fear speaks to the individual person; it refers directly to a person's life.
