They enable constructions in the reality but equally in oneself, they mend wath is missing. Maths are considered as an ideal object. Perfect raisoning, the truth, out of maths no salvation. Every thing should be maths, related, and although not yet an achieved fact, it is just a matter of time. In such instance maths are the individual's miror .
Maths belong to another world, where life is cosy, where the real world is too tough.
Maths make an obli vion of the actual world, as if you were in a cocoon. Maths are considered a bad thing, a means of selection, a basis of failure, learding possibly to insanity. They lead the subject to project on them part of one's worries. Maths are endowed with every virtue, they are coveted, but they frighten, or are seen untenables. My bibliography Cognitive and emotional interactions History of mathematics' didactic.