The contemporary weakning of the tutelaring figures holds a corrilation to a fear scale. However, the psychoanalysis will bet on other means that not the one of the restauration of the patriarchate father. In order to think such a mean, it is here argued the different categories of fear, considering the forms taken by this term in the course of History, as well as its contemporary inflections in the relation with social bonds.
Fear; anguish; father; joy; science