So as I was reading through Freud’s reading I felt like I couldn’t stay focus on it and so I kept on reading to see if I can eventually figure out what it might be about, and so I did but then I came upon a quote which kind of caught my attention, and it wasn’t just because I didn’t get what apprehension meant but also the idea behind it and how I interpreted this quote. “Fright, fear, apprehension are incorrectly use as synonymous expressions: in their relation to danger they admit of quite clear distinction. Apprehension {Angst) denotes a certain condition as of expectation of danger and preparation for it, even though it be an unknown one; fear {Furchi) requires a definite object of which one is afraid; fright (Schreck) is the name of the condition to which one is reduced if one encounters a danger without being prepared for it; it lays stress on the element of surprise. In my opinion apprehension cannot produce a traumatic neurosis; in apprehension there is something which protects against fright and therefore against the fright-neurosis. We shall return later to this dictum.”
When I saw this quote I honestly didn’t understand what was so important about this, and I also did not know what apprehension was, (could have added it to the lexicon) I also started to realize how apprehension is so much different, its use to stand up to something that has been making you afraid. I saw in Olgi’s Blog post and I saw that he said he was still kind of scared of going to the doctors and how it’s a fear that stays within him while this quote shows the opposite and how you face your fears through this apprehension. Once my friend Mark was hanging out with some of his pals and he wanted to confront this bully that had been bothering him the whole school year. He planned on jumping him with his friends because he wanted revenge. Eddie soon began to realize that what he was doing was wrong and that he shouldn’t be the karma that would come back to him but it was too late since he had already punched him and beat him up. He later learned that he would try to learn how to fight so he would be able to defend himself but he told me that “I will not be the karma for him, because I’m just being a hypocrite by doing the same.” His story relates to this whole idea of apprehension doesn’t have to be negative it can be interpreted in many different ways.
