Fear
Threat-focused arousal—danger, loss, or harm feels proximate or plausible.
20 passages tagged with this primary in the Penwright corpus.
Study and magazine
Entry resolves to the emotion-tagged sequence when published (ASN-933); until then you may land on a placeholder or the main player.
No published passage–image pairings for this emotion yet. The passage list below still reflects how the corpus names this feeling in text.
Part of a cluster
Fear sits inside the cluster below. Each card explains why these emotions cluster — and what specifically distinguishes Fearfrom its siblings here.
Often arrives with
Secondary emotions tagged alongside this primary in the same passages (co-occurrence in loom_passage_tags).
Articles
Vela essays that take this emotion as subject. Articles are ordered by tagging weight (the editor's read of how central this emotion is to the piece).
Research
How Vela holds this emotion as a research object — historiographic, ethnographic, and empirical. The full thread sits sibling to the desire program and the Christianity-sex-shame thread.
- Public introduction — What We Mean When We Name a Feeling. The program essay: what naming does, what disappears when a name disappears, and why the work matters for editorial honesty.
- Literature map — claims keyed to coordinates across historiography of emotion, the basic-vs-constructionist debate, cross-cultural ethnography, and the empirical psychology of named emotions.
- Bibliography — ~110 entries grouped by section, with verified DOIs and stable URLs where available.
- External research runs — index of the 36-run deep-research bring-back that underlies the map and bibliography.
- Vela research surface — index of all research threads (desire, Christianity-sex-shame, text-aesthetic, emotion, Boudoir Studios, museum diversity, artist studies).
Passages
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20 tagged passages
- BDT-RC-299From Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (1901)
And then he tried to hold your brother's coat and kept asking him to stay..." “So, did my brother bring him there?… Yes, this is a difficult moment, Ida, believe me. Ha, I know it like yesterday! I howled... I assure yo…
- DCA-RC-287From The Divine Comedy (1950)
[image file=image_rsrcA5N.jpg] “O THOU THAT art yon side the sacred stream,” her speech directing with the point towards me, which even with the edge had seemed sharp to me, she began again, continuing without delay, “s…
- AHB-RC-2194From Amplified Holy Bible (2015)
[Gen 19:28 ; Ex 19:18 ; Joel 2:10 ] 3 Then out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and power [to hurt] was given to them, like the power which the earth’s scorpions have. [Ex 10:12–15 ] 4 They were told not to hur…
- EJ-RC-156From Escape (2007)
One of the few ways I could protect my children was to please Merril sexually. As long as I remained in Merril’s favor, the other women knew there was a good chance that he might side with me in any confrontation. So ev…
- DG-RC-581From The Decameron (1353)
And being taken aback by his words and the wild expression on his face, he said: ‘What is the meaning of this, sir?’ But Messer Lambertuccio, having inserted his foot in the stirrup and vaulted into the saddle, uttered …
- LF-RC-010From Like Family
Here I was, the descendant of a fence-sitter, and here was the devil, no longer simply in the mouth of the preacher or somewhere way down under the drain hole in the women’s bathroom at the Gospel Lighthouse, but on his…
- SDP-RC-111From Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (2016)
How would they react? How would Ito react? I pictured myself telling the Ice Man that we couldn’t give him his million dollars. It chilled me down to my marrow. I don’t remember the end of that meeting. I don’t remember…
- SCR-RC-153From Scarred (2019)
But it wasn’t over—not even close. I knew there would be consequences. They’d take me to court, they’d wipe out my finances, and they would say terrible things and slander my character in the community that had been my …
- EJ-RC-270From Escape (2007)
At Uncle Rulon’s funeral, I heard Warren Jeffs preach that the prayers of the community had been answered. We had been ordered to pray for the last year that the invalid prophet would be lifted up and renewed—which we t…
- AHB-RC-1214From Amplified Holy Bible (2015)
Isaiah 38 Hezekiah Healed 1 I N THOSE days Hezekiah [king of Judah] became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said, “For the LORD says this, ‘Set your house in o…
- KWCB-RC-132From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
“No, ma'am, Mrs. Henderson, what?” Then she did give him the tiniest of shakes, but because of her strength the action set his head and arms to shaking loose on the ends of his body. He stuttered much worse than Uncle W…
- UMK-RC-080From An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (1995)
The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension. It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, a…
- GCW-RC-155From The Glass Castle: A Memoir (2005)
When they saw me, they grinned wolfishly at Robbie, who put on the Roy Acuff record without turning down the television. He pressed me to him and started dancing again, but I knew this was not going in a direction I wan…
- AQ22-RC-1591From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
12. Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death. 13. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’…
- TBL-RC-161From This Boy's Life: A Memoir (1989)
“Disease as Metaphor in The Plague .” “Modes of Blindness in Oedipus Rex .” “Conscience and Law in Huckleberry Finn .” But he had better luck teaching me to love Django Reinhardt and Joe Venuti, and to sing, while he to…
- EJ-RC-060From Escape (2007)
Merril Jessop. I knew that name. I’d gone to school with his daughters—they were the nusses. I was now going to be one of their mothers. I knew enough about Merril Jessop to know I didn’t like the way he treated his fam…
- GC-RC-259From Going Clear (2013)
Daniel’s work at Bridge Publications was sufficiently impressive that he was posted full-time in the manufacturing division there the following year. The church had issued a new edition of Hubbard’s books and lectures c…
- ML-RC-376From Martin Luther (2016)
Afterward, he went home, but not before inviting Jonas and his wife to come back to the Black Cloister for supper. No sooner had they walked in the door than Luther experienced an infernal buzzing in his ear and said th…
- SSS-RC-439From The Second Sex (1949)
Another frigid woman says that “during her wedding night, her husband deeply insulted her” seeing her get undressed, he allegedly said: “My God, how thin you are!” Then he nevertheless decided to caress her. For her thi…
- HCCP-RC-2342From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
Gruet was tortured every day for a month, after the inhuman fashion of that age.743 He confessed that he had affixed the libel, and that the papers found in his house belonged to him; but he refused to name any accompli…