ontological insecurity

is anxiety and danger where there is absence of the assurances derived from an existential position.

This study is concerned with the issues involved where there is the partial or almost complete absence of the assurances derived from an existential position of what I shall call primary ontological security: with anxieties and dangers that I shall suggest arise only in terms of primary ontological insecurity... and with the consequent attempts to deal with such anxieties and dangers.' (Laing 'divided self' p.39)

is the destruction of the unconscious need that things are as they appear and will remain that way . It is a stable mental state derived from a sense of continuity and order in events.

ontological insecurity, n.All

ontological insecurity