When we feel fear, we feel fear of something. I brought this model of emotional intentionality together with a model of affect as contact. we are affected by "what" we come into contact with. In other words. emotions are directed to what we come into contact with: they move us "toward" and "away" from such objects. So, we might fear object that approaches us. The approach is not simply about the arrival of an object: it is also how we turn toward that object.
Sara Ahmed - Queer Phenomenology