Neurosis and the Existential Vacuum

Every age has its own collective neurosis, and every age needs its own psychotherapy to cope with it. The existential vacuum, which is the mass neurosis of the present time, can be described as a private and personal form of nihilism. Psychotherapy would not only reflect a nihilistic philosophy, but also transmit to the patient what is actually a caricature rather than a true picture of man. Man does not simply exist, but always decides what he will become in the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant,. Therefore we can predict his future only within the framework of a statistical survey referring to a large group or even an entire country