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FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)

Overthink

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Is There Something More Fundamental to FOMO?

David Frum: FOMO is never really a fear of the thing that is presented as the object of the fear. He says there's something much more fundamental to it where even that wouldn't satisfy him. In Freudian psychoanalysis, phobias often include an element of what he calls displacement. And so I think everybody who has FomO is little Hans, not in the sense that they're afraid of the father,. But rather something else.

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