![]() But I wasn't, so in lieu of psychoanalysis I had a few favorite movies I came back to time after time. ![]() If I had been born in the Victorian era, they would have called me "sensitive" and hooked me up with Freud to decipher my dreams. Alone, none were particularly phobic, and most of them were typical childhood fears, but taken as a group, they felt debilitating. My collective fears ranged from the mundane (heights, spiders, roller coasters) to the borderline-ontological (loneliness, deaths of pets and family members). On the swing set, I was paralyzed by the fear that the swing would swing in a full 360, carrying me with it, just as I'd seen it do on TV. I use things advisedly - loose, indistinct, vague - because there was no theme tying these fears together.
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