Citations:phobophobia
English citations of phobophobia
Noun: fear of fear
edit- 1980, Walter Laqueur, The political psychology of appeasement, →ISBN, page 80:
- [A]part from some memorable phrases in the Roosevelt tradition concerning the danger of phobophobia ("The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"), it is difficult to think of any major contribution by its statesmen or politicians.
- 2014, Adrian Vermeule, The Constitution of Risk
- In particular, the rulemakers – here judges who craft free speech doctrine – may themselves display a pathological fear of succumbing to pathological fear, a kind of phobophobia.