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"Les peurs sont devenues une caractéristique de notre époque. Multiplication des phobies individuelles et peurs d’affronter la vie. Empilement des craintes collectives liées aux attaques terroristes, aux crises financières, aux dégâts de la mondialisation, aux ravages des polluants chimiques, à l’épuisement des ressources de la planète, etc. Comment ne pas craindre d’être engloutis par ces flots d’angoisse, nous et nos enfants ? Éclairé de sa longue pratique de psychanalyste, Ali Magoudi sonde comportements du quotidien, faits d’actualité, cas cliniques et expériences personnelles. Il décrit ainsi un monde appauvri en repères et en références, les frontières d’un empire des peurs portées à des dimensions jusque-là inconnues. Entre laïcité affaiblie et religion réduite aux acquêts, s’est constituée en Occident une véritable force tierce qui relève du continent noir des frayeurs. Obscure, elle emprunte au registre religieux certains de ses modes défensifs pour combattre des peurs qui s’ignorent. Prolifèrent une régulation néoreligieuse des plus implacables, ainsi que des discours apocalyptiques qui n’annoncent pas pour autant la venue du Messie. Cet ouvrage offre des pistes novatrices et stimulantes aux sujets contemporains confrontés à des messages catastrophes pour sortir d’une paranoïa sans persécuteur repérable, et pour libérer la pensée des barrages cognitifs que le gouvernement des peurs instaure sans cesse."

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The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. The result is a 'terror of the Same', lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, insight and experience but are instead reduced to the echo chambers and illusory encounters offered by social media. In extreme cases, this feeling of disorientation and senselessness is compensated through self-harm, or even harming others through acts of terrorism. Byung-Chul Han argues that our times are characterized not by external repression but by an internal depression, whereby the destructive pressure comes not from the Other but from the self. It is only by returning to a society of listeners and lovers, by acknowledging and desiring the Other, that we can seek to overcome the isolation and suffering caused by this crushing process of total assimilation

Fear --- Other (Philosophy) --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Fear - Social aspects

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In 1999, responding to international concerns about the sexual exploitation of children, the Japanese Diet voted unanimously to ban child prostitution and child pornography. Two years later, in the wake of 9/11, Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet radically shifted government counterterrorism policy toward new military solutions, and away from an earlier emphasis on law enforcement. Although they seem unrelated, these two policies reveal the unintended consequences of attempts to enforce international norms at the national level.In Think Global, Fear Local, David Leheny posits that when states abide by international agreements to clamp down on transnational crime and security concerns, they respond not to an amorphous international problem but rather to more deeply held and proximate fears.Although opponents of child prostitution and pornography were primarily concerned about the victimization of children in poor nations by wealthy foreigners, the Japanese law has been largely used to crack down on "compensated dating," in which middle-class Japanese schoolgirls date and sometimes have sex with adults. Many Japanese policymakers viewed these girls as villains, and subsequent legal developments have aimed to constrain teenage sexual activities as well as to punish predatory adults. Likewise, following changes in the country's counterterrorism policy, some Japanese leaders have redefined a host of other threats-especially from North Korea-as "terrorist" menaces requiring a more robust and active Japanese military.Drawing from sources as diverse as parliamentary debate records and contemporary film and literature, Leheny uses these two very different cases to argue that international norms can serve as political tools, allowing states to enhance their coercive authority.

Sex --- Violence --- Fear --- Social aspects --- Japan --- Social conditions

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From the authors of the groundbreaking and best-selling The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety, this essential guide offers fifty-two quick and powerful mindfulness-based strategies to help readers break free from fear, worry, and panic, and cultivate genuine, lasting happiness.

Anxiety --- Meditation --- Angst --- Anxieties --- Anxiousness --- Emotions --- Stress (Psychology) --- Agitation (Psychology) --- Fear --- Worry --- Treatment --- Therapeutic use.

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Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and yet there are thousands of books, films, games, and other forms of entertainment designed to do exactly that.As Darryl Jones shows, the horror genre is huge. Ranging from vampires, ghosts, and werewolves to mad scientists, Satanists, and deranged serial killers, the cathartic release of scaring ourselves has made its appearance in everything from Shakespearean tragedies to internet memes. Exploring the key tropes of the genre, including its monsters, its psychological chills, and its love affair with the macabre, Darryl Jones discusses why horror stories disturb us, and how society responds to literary and film representations of the gruesome and taboo. Should the enjoyment of horror be regarded with suspicion? Are there different levels of the horrific, and should we distinguish between the commonly reviled carnage of contemporary torture porn and the culturally acceptable bloodbaths of ancient Greek tragedies?Analysing the way in which horror manifests multiple personalities, and has been used throughout history to articulate the fears and taboos of the current generation, Jones considers the continuing evolution of the genre today. As horror is mass marketed to mainstream society in the form of romantic vampires and blockbuster hits, it also continues to maintain its former shadowy presence on the edges of respectability, as banned films and violent internet phenomena push us to question both our own preconceptions and the terrifying capacity of human nature.

Horror tales --- Horror films --- History and criticism. --- Fear in motion pictures. --- Peur --- Au cinéma.