I don't understand your post, or Freud.
Explaining flinching as a fear reaction is unhelpful, and wrong.
Peter Harris in 2018 was still repeating what is clearly incorrect
"I believe it is caused by a fear of noise, recoil, and failure to hit the target."
https://www.shootinguk.co.uk/answers/shooting-answers/trigger-freeze-or-the-flinch-effect-1845There is no noise or recoil in throwing a dart, but some still get "dartitis".
I flinch trying to click on my mouse if the cursor is not exactly where it needs to be (an example of a "visual flinch")...no fear, noise or pain is involved.
Emotions play a role in flinching, but shooters do not flinch because of "fear", some mental deficiency, or emotional weakness. I know plenty of very tough guys who would be unable to shoot trap without a release trigger. How does the release cure "fear"? Or simply changing one's grip (frequently tried with golfers) which has helped me enormously (purposefully squeezing the grip before calling for the target)?
Anxiety/embarrassment about flinching/the "yips" certainly
can worsen the problem however. "Sports Anxiety" or "match stress" is a valid term, but "yips" are much more than an emotional reaction to performance stress and "choking"
https://drstankovich.com/conquering-sports-anxiety-beat-the-yips-for-sport-success/ https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-do-athletes-get-the-yips#3 Sports Psychologists think "yips" is all psychologic. This guy calls it "misplaced focus"
https://www.mlb.com/news/the-yips-difficult-to-understand-difficult-to-cure/c-47124896 Golf coach John Redman thinks it's caused by "doubt and confusion"
http://theaposition.com/davidgouldg...-when-youre-stroking-your-practice-puttsYipping, according to Redman and others, is a glitch in the neuro-muscular works caused by doubt and confusion. (The psycho-cybernetics pioneer Maxwell Maltz coined the apt phrase "purpose tremor" to describe physical phenomena like the yips.)
In today's golf coaching environment, it's natural to go after the yips with sports psychology techniques, i.e., to create an internal emotional stimulus of calm and confidence to override the anxiety that is jamming the signals we have to send in order to make a smooth stroke. The other, probably superior, tack is to change the visual stimuli that are causing doubt and confusion.
