No one will deny that fear is the type of asthenic manifestations.
"Essay on the Creative Imagination"
Th. Ribot
Psychologists class the feelings bound up with flight, cowering, and prostration under the common head of "asthenic emotion".
"Five Stages of Greek Religion"
Gilbert Murray
In face of the sacred the normal man is visited by a heart-sinking, a wave of asthenic emotion.
"Five Stages of Greek Religion"
Gilbert Murray