[Aspects of anxiety-fear differentiation]

By exposition of philosophical and general psychological aspects of the differentiation of anxiety and fear an heuristic differentiation according to the following criterias becomes possible: 1. attributes of a (threatening) stimulus constellation, 2. personality specific cognitive and emotive-motivational processes, and 3. reactive rehaviour and action patterns. By means of a model which considers the functions of especially the hippocampus as well as the problems of orientation the differences are to be exemplified neuropsychologically.