Based in the thesis about somatic anguish, which declares that the substratum of anguish are extreme sexual tension and extreme sexual off, this article presents the hypothesis that the action of death impulse around of life impulse produces a primordial form of anguish. This anguish is not yet characterized as sensation, but as pure amount that, with the development of the psychic apparatus, would be used by the ego for the defense. Therefore, the readiness for anguish (Angstbereitschaft), described in Beyond the principle of the pleasure, would have as bedding such form of anguish.
Anguish; impulse; trauma