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The results highlight trends in the field in 4 discursive categories. For authors of Phenomenological Psychopathology, anxiety is understood as a global alteration of being-in-the-world, characterized by disturbances in temporality (dysrhythmia, narrowing of the future), spatiality (feeling of invasion\/avoidance), and intersubjectivity (hypervigilance towards others). In specific conditions such as social anxiety and OCD, anxiety appears as a way for the subject to deal with anguish and uncertainty. In phenomenological philosophy, anxiety (or anguish) is considered a human and existential phenomenon, enabling a confrontation with incompleteness and freedom. The clinical directions of the collected articles point to the ways in which clinical contact can, by enabling contact with uncertainty, pave the way for a creative production of meaning. 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