“This is the vice inherent in our nature: things invisible, hidden and unknown give rise to both great faith and the strongest fear in us” (Julius Caesar) Fear is familiar to every person from early childhood. This is a person’s mental state associated with painful experiences and causing actions aimed at self-preservation. There are different fears. Today we won’t talk about real rational fears. There are many reasons for them in our rapidly changing life. Let's talk about neurotic fears, irrational ones, which appear as signals about an unknown danger emanating from our own instincts (drives), prohibitions, guilt, loss, control, loss, separation, merging, the unknown and much more. S. Freud said that “the unconscious libido of a rejected idea appears in the form of fear.” What once posed a danger and exceeded the ability of the human (child) psyche to cope, was suppressed, thrown to the periphery, not processed by the psyche, not integrated into experience, and can return to a person during his life in the form of fears. Lacan said that “what has been rejected and not accepted into the psychic space returns from the outside in the form of fear.” Fear is a signal of danger, real or illusory, imaginary. Fears often appear not out of nowhere, but after stressful situations, losses, losses, illnesses, shocks, and affective states. Usually in psychoanalytic therapy, through research, the client finds the reasons for his irrational fears, usually in childhood, when the world seemed magical, mysterious, unknown and unexpected. A recurring obsessive neurotic fear of a specific stimulus is called a phobia. A person is usually afraid of a specific situation or a specific object, for example, spiders. However, this particular one is not the cause of the fear that underlies this phobia. With a phobia, danger is projected onto a symbolic object. For example, often the basis of claustrophobia, phobia of robbers, spiders, military invasion, according to Rosenfeld, is the fear of being imprisoned and persecuted due to a childhood fantasy of attack and sadistic penetration of the mother's body. Sometimes neurotic fears and phobias appear for no apparent reason at all and are accompanied by unpleasant somatic manifestations, leading to illnesses, accidents, and “fatal” events. It happens that the fear itself is not realized at all, and the person only gets sick and feels bad all the time. In order for fear to leave a person, internal work is necessary on symbolization, on finding and realizing the meaning of fear and living this experience. The resources for liberation from fear always exist within the person himself. I would like to briefly describe here the history of one neurotic fear, the phobia of cancer. A young woman sought help for suffering from a phobia of cancer for two years. This phobia began some time after marriage and the loss of a relative who had cancer. The marriage was happy, out of love, but because of fear, everything went wrong. Sex life came to naught because the client felt bad all the time. She left her job and devoted all her time to clinics, hospitals and endless examinations. Most of the husband’s earnings also went here. Despite the fact that the client’s body was examined up and down many times, new reasons for regular examinations arose all the time. The client came to therapy because her family life was “bursting at the seams” and things were headed towards divorce. In a therapeutic study, the client discovered that behind her fear of cancer there were completely different fears. One of her hobbies was astrology. She paid a lot of attention to predictions and predictions based on zodiac signs. It turned out that her husband's zodiac sign was Cancer. She was afraid of cancer - of her husband, or rather of sexual intimacy with him (from which she protected herself). Further research showed that she.