Fear and anguish cannot coexist because one is reflective and the other unreflective

Evidence

In this sense fear and anguish are exclusive of one another since fear is unreflective apprehension of the transcendent and anguish is reflective apprehension of the self; the one is born in the destruction of the other. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 236

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames fear (unreflective, transcendent-directed) and anguish (reflective, self-directed) as mutually exclusive modes excluding one another.
• XREF: connects to: Anguish reveals the double nihilation that suspends the world in nothingness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 213; Anguish is fear of oneself while fear targets beings in the world — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 236; Reflection offers an undetermined future against fear’s strict determinism

Broader Connections

• Reflection offers an undetermined future against fear’s strict determinism #contradicts (0.85)