A Civilizational Diagnosis.
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The disappearance of transcendence does not eliminate metaphysics; it relocates it within consciousness itself. Modern inwardness becomes the place where meaning, necessity and the Absolute are now carried, even after the collapse of shared religious and cosmic order.
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Modern subjectivity inherits the structure once attributed to God. The self is increasingly burdened with sovereignty, self-grounding, and the demand to generate its own meaning, value, and legitimacy from within.
Obligation persists even when transcendence no longer guarantees it. Guilt, responsibility, and moral demand remain, but they now operate under fractured conditions in which no universally binding order can fully secure them.
Addiction emerges as a structural symptom of modern consciousness. What appears clinically as compulsion, dependency, and psychic disintegration must also be understood as an expression of deeper historical and existential conditions.
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Literature, cinema, and tragedy reveal the psychic form of this condition. Modern culture discloses, often more clearly than theory alone, the inner structure of fragmentation, longing, repetition, and collapse.