imagination and fear

Presently I'm reading a lot of literary criticism with Kurt.   One of the sources we are using is by Harold Bloom called The Anxiety of Influence.   That theme can be related to a notion of fear.   Also, within the literary exercise of imagination, there is often a narrated fear of losing it.   So of course, it's not always that we imagine something in the dark that we then fear.   It's possible to fear losing the capacity to imagine, which can be associated with things like the capacity to love someone.   Most of what supports a loving or caring transaction, intended or not, is imagination.   But perhaps that's just my view of it.....