The Mother, Anxiety, and Death: The Catastrophic Death Complex

aggression Amer annihilation anxi anxiety of death attitudes toward death basic anxiety becomes behavior believe biological birth castration castration anxiety castration complex catastrophic death complex cause child Choron clinical concept conflict conscious cultural danger situation death anxiety death instinct death wish defense denial derived disorders dread dying effect emotional ence evoke existence existential experience external factor fantasies fear of death feeling Feifel fetus filicidal Freud guilt hate helplessness Hogarth Press hostile human idea immortality infant infantile libido loss masochism masochistic maternal destructiveness means ment mental mother mother-child relationship motive neurosis neurotic anxiety nonbeing nurturant object organic origin pain parents pathogenic patient person phobia pregnancy prenatal problem Psychiat Psychiatry Psychoanal Psychoanalysis Psychol psychological psychotherapy punishment reaction repression response sadistic says Schilder sense sexual Sigmund Freud social superego thanatophobia threat tion tive traumatic uncon unconscious unconscious mind universal woman women York