"Every age has its own neurosis, and every age needs its own psychotherapy to cope with it." In these words Viktor Frankl strikes the keynote of the new therapy that he brings to the neurotic condition of our time. Dr. Frankl is head of neurol ogy in the Vienna Poliklinic and Professor in the Medical Faculty, University of Vienna. His diagnosis of our age is that many today suffer a loss of the meaning of life. Such a loss results in a profound emptiness and futility, which he calls the "existential vacuum."1 How shall we cope with this loss of meaning, which robs life of its value and purpose? First of all, the remedy must be appropriate to the need. And this is where many remedies fail. One remedy today that is often applied and applauded is psychoanal ysis. Whenever a person is unhappy or perplexed he may be referred to psychoanal ysis. But psychoanalysis is a specific treatment for specific neuroses and not a cure all for every condition. And it is open to misunderstandings that often lead to fallacies, such as the pathetic fallacy that reduces every distress to illness to be treated as a pathology. But loss of meaning is a spiritual problem to be met on its own ground, not to be pushed to the couch or regressed to infantile neuroses. Psychoanalysis has emerged from important discoveries of Freud about the dy namic nature of the unconscious. They are historical, and they are dated. We build on the foundation of the past, even as we are obliged to move beyond it and correct its errors. Freud was a child of nineteenth-century science cast in lines of rigid determinism. This rigid determinism is what the newer science of our time has