{"id":125993,"date":"2026-05-01T09:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jungian.directory\/fcxfougk\/?post_type=books&p=125993"},"modified":"2026-05-05T08:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:01:51","slug":"the-airtight-construction-of-a-neurosis-the-logic-of-modernity-and-the-mother-of-psychology-on-marco-heleno-barretos-analysis-of-giegerichs-psychology-as-the-discipline-of-interio","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/jungian.directory\/fcxfougk\/books\/the-airtight-construction-of-a-neurosis-the-logic-of-modernity-and-the-mother-of-psychology-on-marco-heleno-barretos-analysis-of-giegerichs-psychology-as-the-discipline-of-interio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Airtight Construction of a Neurosis, the Logic of Modernity, and the Mother of Psychology: On Marco Heleno Barreto\u2019s analysis of Giegerich\u2019s psychology as the discipline of interiority"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his 2021 book,\u00a0Psychology and Metaphysics<\/span>, Marco Heleno Barreto boldly claims Wolfgang Giegerich\u2019s conception of psychology as the discipline of interiority to be structurally neurotic. This diagnosis results from the fact that Barreto\u2019s work is driven by a supreme personal interest: to transform this psychology into a \u201cmetaphysical psychology\u201d. This lofty purpose and the corresponding standpoint force him to view the psychology he critiques, not from within itself, but from high above and outside, so that his (in themselves intelligent) arguments in support of his diagnosis miss their target. A close analysis of his major arguments nevertheless provides the opportunity to strike sparks from them.
\nAnd yet, a mere critique of the critique is only a negative response to his challenge. Therefore, this book proceeds to the task of also providing a positive answer to his thesis by leaving Barreto\u2019s statements completely aside and presenting a novel attempt of its own to derive, and step by step unfold, the inner logic of psychology from its historical origin and source that Jung had discovered, namely, the loss of religion and metaphysics in modernity.
\nThe careful development of the implications and ramifications of this loss and the interiorization of this loss into itself reveal the latter as an historical, epochal cut, as unbridgeable dissociation (the nuclear fission of the present), and as sheer negativity. As such it is the ruling spirit of modernity, its innovative restlessness, and at the same time the Mother of psychology. As \u201cdaughter\u201d, so we could say, psychology inherited its \u201cDNA\u201d from this Mother. In its logical constitution it is permeated by this loss as absolute negativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Giegerich replies to Barreto’s provocative charge that his psychology as the discipline of interiority is, by its own diagnostic criteria, neurotically dissociated. The exchange \u2014 itself recursive, each thinker deploying the other’s tools \u2014 advances the post-Jungian “with Jung, beyond Jung” dialectic into genuinely new speculative territory, centering on whether metaphysics retains legitimate currency in modernity. Rigorous and combative, this slim volume will reward senior analysts and theoretically minded clinicians with a stake in the ongoing epistemological self-examination of depth psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":125994,"template":"","tags":[],"book__categories":[],"class_list":["post-125993","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Airtight Construction of a Neurosis, the Logic of Modernity, and the Mother of Psychology: On Marco Heleno Barreto\u2019s analysis of Giegerich\u2019s psychology as the discipline of interiority - JungianDirectory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Airtight Construction of a Neurosis, the Logic of Modernity, and the Mother of Psychology: On Marco Heleno Barreto\u2019s analysis of Giegerich\u2019s psychology as the discipline of interiority\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Giegerich replies to Barreto's provocative charge that his psychology as the discipline of interiority is, by its own diagnostic criteria, neurotically dissociated. 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