Neurosis: The Logic of a Metaphysical Illness

Giegerich's account of neurosis as the soul's response to modernity — not a personal disorder but the logical expression of the soul's situation in a world that has lost its metaphysical grounding.

Neurosis as metaphysical: neurosis is not a personal failure or disorder but the soul's historically appropriate response to the collapse of the traditional metaphysical frameworks (religion, myth, philosophy) that formerly sustained psychological life. The 'logical negativity' at the heart of modernity: the soul has moved into a phase of absolute negativity that expresses itself as neurotic suffering. A fundamental reframing of psychopathology.