Symbolophobia

Symbolophobia is an obsessive fear of symbols. It can be an incomprehensible or, on the contrary, a familiar figure, be it a hieroglyph on the wall of a subway car, an image of a lily in a psychologist’s office, or a symbol of an animal in a zoo. A person is afraid to see these symbols everywhere and runs away into a fictional world where they are not there at all.

The term was first coined by the famous William James after his uncle. He

Symbolophobia or the fear of symbols cannot be considered a form of the Frankenstein complex - this set of phobias, according to the basic rule, only covers paranormal objects. Symptoms of symbolophobes are found precisely in the mental area, and specific physical signs are almost never found. Most often, X-rays help here, but not more than twice a year, because the changes are very mild.