Biography of phobia

Internet project "Excursion into history." Marilyn Monroe was persecuted by the fear of open space. In addition, she was panicky afraid of the places of a large crowd of people. But these fears did not prevent Marilyn Monroe from gaining huge popularity and become a worldwide sex symbol. Sigmund Freud is a “branded” method of working with patients when the patient lies on the couch, and the doctor sits behind him, dictated by Freud's fear to look in the eyes.

The father of psychoanalysis plunged into awe, for this reason, Freud never stopped in hotels, where more than 61 rooms, so that he would not be accidentally settled in an “unlucky number”. It is known that the psychoanalyst investigated his fear of weapons and ferns. He considered the first a consequence of late sexual maturation, and did not get to the cause of the frightening effect of harmless plants.

Nikolai Gogol the great writer was afraid to be buried alive. There were still certain grounds for the development of such a phobia: in his youth, Gogol suffered malaria encephalitis, and the disease made itself felt all his life, causing deep fainting with subsequent sleep. Hence the fear that during one of these attacks they can take him for the deceased and buried.

In the last years of his life, he was so scared that he preferred not to go to bed and slept sitting so that the dream was more sensitive. By the way, the first American President George Washington was afraid to be buried alive. He repeatedly asked his loved ones so that the funeral would take place no earlier than two days after his death. And since the age of thirty, Gogol suffered from pathophobia - a fear of getting sick.

Vladimir Mayakovsky was afraid to pick up the infection. That is why the poet never touched the door handles and did not take off his gloves. Wherever Mayakovsky went, he everywhere carried with him a small soap dish, iodine and several clean scarves. There were rumors that the poet’s father died from blood poisoning, pricking his dirty needle. Allegedly, this fact settled in the head of Mayakovsky mysophobia - a fear of pollution and microbes.

Napoleon Bonaparte in the paintings always sits on a white horse. But this is nothing more than a fantasy of the artist. The emperor was panicky afraid of white horses. But by the way, he also did not have much love for horses and mares of other stripes. He repeatedly fell from a horse and once, having taken his own brown with his own carriage, almost killed his wife and daughter sitting in the crew-the horses were carried, and the carriage crashed into the fence of one of the surrounding houses.

And Napoleon was afraid ...

Kotov. They say that in childhood, a homeless cat jumped on her chest, and since then the future commander simply hated these animals. Nikola Tesla, the inventor of electromagnetism and electricity was afraid of viruses and, because of the first phobia, he was afraid to touch other people or surfaces. Very often washed his hands. In addition, his fear of jewelry was especially manifested when he saw pearls.

And he also had an inexplicable addiction to the number 3. For example, in the hotel he necessarily stopped in a room, the serial number of which was divided into three aimed. Isaac Newton was tormented by fears, depression and agorathobia for this reason about the calculus invented by him only after 10 years. Salvador Dali was afraid of the grasshoppers to death. If I were on the edge of the abyss and the grasshopper jumped into my face, I would prefer to rush into the abyss than to endure these touches.

According to Dali, in childhood, his comrades, knowing about this fear, often threw out the grasshoppers to him. I had to pretend that he is actually afraid of white paper lumps. Then, instead of grasshoppers, school blunders rained down. Unfortunately, the artist suffered all his life entomophobia. Alfred Hitchcock Master of Kinovazhaas himself was afraid to death if he saw something like an egg, he felt ill.

In his entire life, Hitchcock did not try a single egg, so they were disgusted to him. Doctors recognized the director with a strong degree of icophobia. Gustav Aiffel is surprising, but the creator of one of the highest structures in the world - the Eiffel Tower - was afraid of heights. Woody Allen record holder for phobias. Among his “normal” fears are such as a fear of height, closed space and insects.

The more “abnormal” include fear of bright colors, animals, elevators and the fact that peanut oil will stick to its larynx. In addition to phobias, Allen also has several neurotic needs. So, for example, he needs a shower always in the corner, and the banana for breakfast is cut into exactly seven parts.