ABSTRACT
Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety is a text written by Sigmund Freud in the maturity of his thought. Freud places anxiety before the formation of the superego; it is also interesting that he gives it a relative value in the dynamics of repression. This is significant in terms of locating anxiety and repression as a fact of structure, in particular the primordial repression, independent of the formations of the second topic; these would operate in relation to both anxiety and repression, but could be considered as autonomous, as proposed by Jacques Lacan. Anxiety is part of the different categories of potential meaning in the series of risks of losses as a background to what ends up as castration anxiety. The meaning given by the ego goes from the fear of psychological helplessness, then the loss of the object or love of the object, to castration anxiety when it is located and in the phallic meaning.
