IJSP Number 5, 2023

96 and credulous ones. Everyone, good or bad, qualified or amateur, scrupulous and conscientiously driven or unscrupulous and mean, can open shop in such a large and hard to verify market. In the end, so it is said and understood, the market will select the good or the best and the rest will be ignored and quietly disappear. If it was reasonable to consider “that meaning and authority” usually went or at least should have gone hand in hand [5], as the old humanism thought, it seems that in our diverse postmodernism, meaning is hard to find and authority is just another word from the past (which was not as politically correct as our present is). On the other side of this social paradigm, there are so many therapeutic umbrellas that everyone can be “put under” or harboured and safely “apprehended” by such a multitude of psychotherapeutic diversity. As such, even this sensible approach of the human soul and its problems or difficulties found themselves inscribed and absorbed, in the market economy, under its very large umbrella of services. Psychotherapy is, as they say, a service; consequently, the therapist has something to offer, namely a specialized service to a client, who has to pay for the received service – all that is placed on a business level, and more so, on an incontrovertible financial slope, integrated rather in the neoliberal economy, than on the interhuman concern for another’s lost soul that has to be recuperated from their own individual and isolated psychological hell (where the true menace is to be left out, neglected, marginalized or ignored by the group of one’s own peers, as Rollo May pointed out in his The Discovery of Being, [6]). As therapy clients continue to increase in numbers and because capitalist urbanization creates – practically ex nihilo – every possible form of neurosis, psychotherapy as such becomes a marketable item among many others on the ever- larger and ever-growing offer of the market place of modern life. Given such a context, the general problems that psychotherapy can address are, at least on the surface, situated on the psychological level, generally meaning the large and diverse spectrum of neurosis. But there is yet another deeper existential side, one concerning our sui generis humanness, better understood by the field of anthropology. In other words, what psychotherapists deal with and are generally qualified for is under the umbrella of psychology and not that of anthropology. Therapists barely think or consider deep existential problems concerning human condition, especially if it is our contemporary condition lost in the endless maze of offers, temptations and frustrations or needless stress of modern life. The main questions seem to be, at least on the surface, “What is wrong with you?”, or “Why do you not fell well?”, or “What is the problem?”. And, consequently, “What should I do to fix this?”. The actual context of therapy, just a (paid) service among so many others, does not permit focusing on deeper seated anthropological questions concerning the general human condition in our postmodern and postindustrial world where everything seems to be made for consumption, even the inherent humanity of our fellow humans.