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this paper aims to discuss the concepts of disgust and fear in Kolnai's work. Disgust lays out cognitive matters different from fear, in spite of some thinkers have considered them identical. I will first concentrate on the contrast between fear and disgust from the point of view of their intentional objects and explain why Kolnai thinks that the intentional objects of fear are two, while disgust has only one intentional object. Secondarily, I will examine the notion of proximity which defines the object of disgust in contrast with the object of fear according to Kolnai. Thirdly, I will analyze Kolnai's critical appropriation of the Freudian analysis of disgust. In the final part of the paper I will examine the hypothesis that the category of excessive proximity, which expresses the subject-object relationship, may apply also to the object's material constitution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]