6/30/2023 0 Comments Anime eyes of instanityHe clings onto his chest and clenches his face as though he was thinking “if I move even the smallest bit, my life could just be over, just like all those other victims-“. The man is obviously portraying the fear, his face with such a horrific expression. In the photo you can see two main factors the man in front and the demon in back. To capture such a fear in a photo, it took some thinking of course, my thought process was pretty messy. The fear of extinction, it’s such a scary thought! To be known one second, and annihilated the next. Consider that panicky feeling you get when you look over the edge of a high building.” (Albrecht) This is a more fundamental way to express it than just "fear of death." The idea of no longer being arouses a primary existential anxiety in all normal humans. ”The fear of annihilation, of ceasing to exist. This will be done by taking these abnormal fears and placing them into these psychological categories, to make the abnormal normal, turning the concept on its head. In this collaboration we have come to make use of this psychological hierarchy of fear and using the special rule of atypical fears to make it interesting. Just as these fears are beneficial they can also be detrimental as an extremely irrational fear of heights can lead into acrophobia or extremely irrational responses to outside influences affecting your culture can lead to irrational fears like xenophobia. Each image will be explained by Mori in the “ Artists Thoughts” sections of our blog. To add even further expression of the categories in this study, our artist, Mori, has illustrated 5 different images interpreting each fear through our avatars. On an individualistic level it helps a person maintain identity but when the majority develop these fears it cultivates cultures and communities that can care for each other(Albrecht). This is the preservation of self image, the fear of humiliation and self degradation. On the opposite end of the spectrum, or perhaps I should say the opposite end of the hierarchy, we have the classification of ego-death. Such that fear of heights, i.e fear of falling to their deaths, is an individualistic fear but once it is adopted by the majority it aids in the evolutionary success of that species as that collective fear aids in preventing extinction or extremely detrimental mutilation. ![]() These classifications are extinction, mutilation, loss of autonomy, separation and ego-death collectively placed in a hierarchy dubbed by him as the “Feararchy”(Albrecht).Įach fear is important for our evolutionary success which when adopted by an individual will aid the survival of the entire species. In his studies he developed a classification of human fear that we have evolved for the benefit of our evolutionary success. The main structure of this collaboration will be based on the understanding of human fear through the studies of the psychologist Karl Albrecht. For this round of the Otaku Games we will be looking at fear through the lens of psychology and making this once unfamiliar concept easy to comprehend. Fear itself is a fairly simple feeling, as odd as that may be. This fear can manifest itself in many ways through anxiety, panic or trepidation. Though we continue to ask ourselves, what is fear? Fear at its core, by dictation, is an unpleasant feeling caused by a perceived or believed danger. Fear is something so deeply human that unites us all.
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