This ramp, crawling, and sometimes it stings or bites it. It intrudes under the duvet, you touches the shoulder, spin around your plate and ends with a dive on the pot of homemade jam. No qualms in bees, no moral in spiders, characterized intrusion into your living space. Unhappy urbanites looking for the quiet countryside ... All these beasties have something seriously pollute your holiday. Without going to the rare phobia, insects do not really have the odds. And while some ignore many people, the sight of a beetle, a visceral experience fear and disgust tenacious.
A strange world
How such small creatures can they make us leave gallop or flailing and screaming? This reaction is due, in part, by the knowledge of the danger (admittedly minimal in our country). Fear called normal functions as an alarm system: the bee stings, so it deviates. More importantly, our aversion "is the nature of insects, says Beatrice Copper-Royer, a clinical psychologist. They belong to the world of the infinitely small, which we totally alien. But all that is unknown mind. Especially since their movements are unpredictable: we are afraid of being attacked by surprise. It is the lack of control that is the most unpleasant thing. "
Ancestral fears
From the psycho-evolutionary theories, collective memory printed in his unconscious a series of threats that have affected humans during its evolution. "Beware of bugs allowed our ancestors to survive, says the psychiatrist Christophe André. Today, their bites are for the most deadliest, but we'll always remember. Creeping species cause, they, equally instinctive disgust. Worms or cockroaches are associated with dirt, contamination of food, so the disease. "Subsequently, the ancestral fears were installed in the collective imagination, says Beatrice Copper-Royer:" Through the stories, which always associate insects with negative images. In a haunted house, for example, there are bound to spiders. Then made formulas take over: the dumps, or drone, it is not very positive ... "
