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The paper reveals how fear is present in Kępiński’s theory (mainly in Fear), in his war experiences and how it is represented in style of the composition of his texts. For Kępiński, fear is a warning sign preventing from losing identity, very common in nature. It is strongly bound up with the essence of life. Kępiński distinguished and described many kinds of fears making use of his theory of energetic and information metabolism. Famous Polish psychiatrist had also terrifying experiences during WWII – he spent 2,5 years in Spanish concentration camp in Miranda de Ebro. After war he practiced psychotherapy on ex-prisoners of German concentration camps. His most famous works were written during the lethal disease and this experience was also reflected in construction of his texts. Kępiński’s books aspire to be synthetic, interdisciplinary monographs. But they are also circular in presenting thesis, eclectic (methodologically too). His style is sometimes metaphorical, emotional. The author didn’t respect rules of scientific discourse (eg. avoiding terminology and presenting different approaches). There are also some interesting traces of subjectivity in Kępiński’s work, but not as obvious as autobiographical re-ferences.