Multi-dimensional Interpretation Of Fear

Fear is a kind of spiritual phenomenon both ancient and modern, both familiar and alien. Philosophers and poets either focused on studies of fear, or avoided it. Concerning the interpretations of fear from philosophers and poets throughout the history of Western literature and culture, we can see that in the process of building the human cognitive order to overcome the original cosmic fear, humans came to discover and define the inner otherness as well as produce a new kind of fear. Changes in the courses of fear mechanism is shown clearly by, both as an ancient social role and as a literary image of witches. By examing literary images of witches throughout the ancient philosophers at different times, by analyzing the interpretations of fear, from different perspectives, we will commence a multi-dimensional perspective of fear, which will allow us a better understanding of the fear as one of the original emotions of human-beings and a better understanding of ourselves. In this paper, by tracing back to poetry of the ancient Greek and multiplying the interpretational angles and illustrating our ideas by literal images of witches, we expect to give a multi-dimensional analysis of the Western "interpretation of fear".This paper is divided into an three parts; introduction, body and conclusion. Introduction defines the "Multi-dimensional Interpretation of fear" and summarizes the research status as well as points out the significance of this paper.Chapter One:literary interpretation of fear. Analyze the literary genres, literary works and literary images concerning fear in the history of Western literature; especially the image of witches.Chapter Two:Poetical and philosophical interpretations of fear. Three points are discussed in this chapter; poetics of Aristotle, aesthetics of Kant and philosophy of Kierkegaard. By analyzing the concepts of fear and concepts designed to overcome fear from different philosophers and various periods, we come to conclude the relationship between fear and rheological cultural order as well as changes of the relationship between the two.Chapter Three:Psychological-aesthetic interpretations of fear. This chapter focuses on Freud, Jung and Lacan’s psychoanalytic theories.Chapter Four:Culture interpretation of fear.Deepening cultural understandings of given ideas above, noting the deep cultural and psychological mechanisms of fear.The conclusion is a summary of the whole paper.