ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book sets the ground for six main fears of life that, to a large extent, are arranged on the basis of developmental chronology of their first appearance. These include the fear of breakdown, fear of aloneness, fear of intimacy, fear of injury, fear of success, and fear of death. Each of these fears is addressed by a distinguished psychoanalyst in a contribution written specifically for the book. The book covers various sources of knowledge in a longitudinal perspective as well as across the gaps and links of differing schools of thought. Remarkably notable in this far-reaching excursion is the advent of an increasing inclination towards previously ambiguous and mysteriously inviting procedural acquisitions that take human mentalisation capacity from a monadic, coenaesthetic global experience of primary narcissism, through a period of self and object differentiation.
