Perry's In Fear Of series hinges on this notion of fears that are amplified, or phobias.
The most prominent notions of fear in the novel come from the Losers Clubb themselves: their home lives, the things that have made them pariahs.
But when we got talking here at the VICE office about what we find captivating, most of us agreed that our notions of fear are tied in with our dreams.
That still allows for serious question over whether, even if Martin did struggle with Zimmerman, there remains the notion of a fear of serious bodily injury.
This concept refers back to Goffman's early notion of the fear of becoming personally 'discredited' based on a stigmatising condition and the associated negative consequences [ 1], but draws upon the more contemporary concept of discrimination (unfair treatment).
They also embrace the notion of overcoming a fear of death, in all its macabre forms and with all the pain and suffering connected to it, and of accepting one's destiny with hope and a sense of peace.
Jones, a professor of anthropology at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, posits a biological explanation that jibes with the Jungian notion of unconscious collective fears.
Like the new venture capitalists, these ideologues started out not with specific policy ideas but with a broad sense of fear, a notion that the system of free enterprise was under siege from radical forces.
He said that "people love it here," and rejected the notion that there was a climate of fear.
