ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud examines that primordial anxiety in complex text—the automatic anxiety is the original one, the one that floods the subject. This chapter discusses the the proximity between anxiety in its primordial state and a signal anxiety to life and death drives, respectively, as well as the relation between anxiety and the detachment of narcissistic libido from the ego. In 1926, Freud approaches the issue of birth trauma as a model of anxiety, based on the disorganisation suffered by a system of organs libidinally associated at the time of birth and on the association of this experience with the primordial anxiety. In the 1926 text, birth anxiety is the model for the traumatic fact, is the essence. The access to traumatic quality itself is done by the transposition of the silent internal threats over the situations of danger, which would generate a detectable anxiety, the signal anxiety.
