These negative strategies give rise to distrust of an emotionally tense and often frantic character which distinguishes it from trust. Its repertoire extends from the definition of the role-partner as an enemy who must be fought, through a boundless accumulation of personal reserves for cases of emergency, up to the renunciation of all needs which can be written off. Strategies of combat, of the mobilizing of reserves, or of renunciation, make possible a conduct of existence based on distrust and define its situation in a way which makes it possible to act rationally within the circumscribed area. The consciousness of distrust is thus often lost and the strategies of reduction demarcated by it become autonomous, become a habitual outlook on life, a routine.

DEFINE: Clarifies that distrust is structured through three distinct strategies — combat, mobilizing reserves, and renunciation — rather than being a single emotional state.

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 264