Postmodern neuroses: Analysis from logotherapy

This article on critical hermeneutic methodology conducted an exegesis on the emergence of new neuroses described in the academic fields of logotherapy, philosophy, and social psychology in postmodernity, focusing on sociogenic and noogenic (spiritual) factors. To this end, the objective was to conduct an analysis of postmodern neuroses from the perspective of logotherapy, with a focus on sociogenic and noogenic origins. Guided by an existential analysis, it is understood that these postmodern neuroses contribute to the proliferation of a silent psychosocial malaise that originates in postmodern ideologies. Thus, this study was conducted from a metaclinical and paraclinical perspective, using logotherapeutic analysis to explore the ideological and social factors that give rise to these disturbances. Among these postmodern neuroses, we find algophobia as a generalized fear of human suffering, emotional hypochondria as the neurosis of constant happiness, narcissistic depression as the despondency of the performance subject, noogenic neurosis as the existential frustration of the era, and mass nihilism as emptiness and loss of hope in life. These neuroses provoke an existential crisis among postmodern social masses, which logotherapy views as a progressive loss of the values of self-realization and meaning.