existential analytic because of its disclosure. Like every ontological interpretation in general, the analytic can only listen in, so to speak, on beings already previously disclosed with regard to their being. And it will keep to the eminent disclosive possibilities of Dasein of the widest [140] scope in order to gain from them information about this being. The phenomenological interpretation must give to Dasein itself the possibility of primordial disclosure and let it, so to speak, interpret itself. It goes along with this disclosure only in order to raise the phenomenal content of disclosure existentially to a conceptual level.
With regard to the later interpretation of such an existential-ontologically significant basic attunement of Dasein, anxiety (cf. § 40), the phenomenon of attunement will be demonstrated more concretely in the definite mode of fear.
§ 30. Fear as a Mode of Attunement6
The phenomenon of fear can be considered in three aspects. We shall analyze what we are afraid of, fearing, and that about which are afraid. These possible aspects of fear are not accidental; they belong together. With them, the structure of attunement in general comes to the fore. We shall complete our analysis by alluding to the possible modifications of fear, each of which concerns its various structural factors.
That before which [Wovor] we are afraid, the "fearsome," is always something encountered within the world, either with the kind of being of something at hand or something objectively present or Dasein-with. We do not intend to report ontically about beings which often and for the most part can be "fearsome," but to determine phenomenally what is fearsome in its fearsome character. What is it that belongs to the fearsome as such which is encountered in fearing? What is feared has the character of being threatening. Here several points must be considered:
1. What is encountered has the relevant nature of harmfulness. It shows itself in a context of relevance.
2. Thus harmfulness aims at a definite range of what can be affected by it. So determined, it comes from a definite region
3. The region itself and what comes from it is known as something which is "unnerving" ["geheuer"].
4. As something threatening, what is harmful is not yet near enough to be dealt with, but it is coming near. As it approaches, harmfulness radiates and thus has the character of threatening.
5. This approaching occurs within nearness. Something may be harmful in the highest degree and may even be constantly coming nearer,
6. Cf. Aristotle, Rhetoric B 5.1382a20-1383b11.