Negative psychoanalysis for anxia corda

Conventional psychology is positively oriented (+). This orientation leads to the stigmatization of negative aspects of human existence. A course along which psychoanalysis and philosophy, especially existential philosophy is, in opposition to the course of conventional psychology, negative (−). Already Lucretius stated that a person has an anxious heart (anxia corda), which can’t be healed. Existential philosophy recognized anxiety as the core of human existence. Their perspective is inverted in comparison to the perspective of conventional psychology, which posits normality and happiness at the heart of a person, and views anxiety as an optional and undesirable deviation from this centre. Due to their negative orientation psychoanalysis and existentialism can better comprehend humans, particularly their constitutive tragic dimension.