Sentence examples for primitive anxieties from inspiring English sources
This elicits primitive anxieties, the fears of both annihilation and colonisation.
Our reliance on Mother Earth and worries about its sustainability echo our early dependence on our mother, restimulating primitive childhood anxieties about loss and annihilation, and the fear that our most urgent needs won't be met.
The crumbling castles of yore gave way to crime-infested urban centers, while fear of villains and ghosts were supplanted by anxiety about primitive impulses, incipient madness and barely repressed moral depravity.
The acceptance of dependence and consecutive regression could help to decrease anxiety and the utilisation of primitive defences could restore self-mastery.
Dr. Pfeiffer, of the anger management association, mentioned seven factors that can make someone "function out of the primitive part of the brain," among them stress, anxiety and tiredness.
And yet even as anxiety throws us back into our most primitive, fight-or-flight-driven reptilian selves, it is also what makes us more than mere animals.
In order to forgive, we need to learn to deal with our primitive feelings, like intense fear, which leads to out-of-balance anxiety and a sense of resentment, which in turn leads to aggression rather than a healthy reaction.
Curzon's anxiety about the budding of Indian nationalism was such that he created a primitive police-intelligence system to monitor its growth.
"Treatment" is equally primitive.
