different fears

it's interesting (coming back to a theme mentioned earlier) for me to compare a few concepts to see how they stand in comparison:

fear - expectation - pain

Fear.  I can think of many kinds of fear.  In teach case the fears are connected directly to external landscapes.   So the kinds of fear seem very varied in this connection.   

Expectation.  I can't think of too many kinds of it other than quantitative.   I suppose expecting a chocolate and expecting a kiss and expecting an electrical shock (fearing one?) are different.  But I don't sense theme as boldly distinguished as the "kinds of fear".    

Pain.   Seems least connected to external landscapes and harder to define in terms of "kinds of".   One might distinguish (not everyone) between a headache, a muscular pain, a pinched nerve.   

I think the way I presented these certainly can be exampled and the argued differently.  But if there is any loose-validity to how these phenomena are felt, perceived, understood and given "words" to represent them has some usefulness.  Then I see "fear" as distinguished in a particular way from other associated concepts.  And this strikes me as possibly important.
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On the leader and follower dimensions of fear:   I think many of us are familiar (in different ways)  with that kind of "leadership" that seeks to rule or lead by fear.   Instilling fear of various kinds.   This can range from fear of physical harm to rather subtle psychological manipulations.    Perhaps of even greater interest is how leaders are motivated to action by fears.   I want to qualify that to:  "their own fears".   This is a much more shadowy area since I think it's clear that many people, not just leaders, are not directly conscious of their own fears.  If this observation has any validity, then it's possible that a leader might cause others to fear due to their own unrecognized fears.

Then the transaction of "fears" become increasingly complex I think.

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I began a little reading last night in Merleau-Ponty.  Whew!   Now I remember why I have never finished it previously.   However, near the end of the Preface, pp. xix-xxi, I thought there were useful insights into his particular version of phenomenology.  

After reading these pages in particular.....I wondered if a major feature of fears (by kind) is between rational and irrational ones.

Allan