Faced with this expert offensive that sought to transform each difficulty of coexistence or defect of character into a cause of legal incapacity, the Supreme Pontiffs—from the lucid warnings of Pius Rotal jurisprudence, as masterfully articulated by the speaker, establishes a rigorous demarcation between true psychoses or serious psychic anomalies that annul the discernment of the intellect and the rule of the will, and those mild immaturities or neuroses that in no way destroy the moral responsibility of the subject or their capacity to consent. In clinical and forensic practice, Catholic anthropology teaches us that the sacrament of marriage was not instituted by God for impeccable angels or for human beings free of psychological defects, but for fallen and redeemed people who have the supernatural help of sacramental grace to perfect their mutual love. Accepting secularized psychological expert reports without the benefit of inventory would be equivalent to validating a covert ecclesiastical divorce, dissolving the sacred order of the family under the deterministic alibi of the mental health expert.

The second fundamental core of the exhibition undertakes the critical evaluation of those contemporary schools that, seeking to overcome crude materialism and Freudian pansexualism, present themselves to the Catholic public under the attractive garb of humanistic, existential or transpersonal psychology. Dr. Pablo Verdier Mazzara devotes meticulous analytical attention to two of the most influential figures of the twentieth century: the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, creator of Logotherapy, and the Swiss doctor Carl Gustav Jung, founder of Analytical Psychology. From our place as philologists and specialists in argumentative logic, we value the undoubted merit of Viktor Frankl in vindicating the noetic and spiritual dimension of man in the famous context of the concentration camps, denouncing mechanistic reductionism and postulating that the search for meaning constitutes the supreme motivational force of human existence.

However, the speaker exposes with unobjectionable doctrinal honesty that Franklian Logotherapy, examined under the incorruptible light of Thomistic metaphysics and revealed dogmatics, suffers from serious theological insufficiencies that prevent it from being assumed as a fully Catholic anthropology. The Franklian concept of the unconscious God and his notion of a natural religiosity underlying every human being remain within the confines of the purely natural and subjective order. In Frankl's existential scheme, meaning is a subjective discovery that man constructs or discovers by his own psychic forces, completely omitting the supernatural order of objective Revelation, the absolute necessity of sanctifying grace and the redeeming Cross of Jesus Christ as the only principle of eternal salvation. Replacing the moral theology of the Church with an existential psychotherapy of meaning can lead to a subtle Pelagianism that induces the believer to seek a purely earthly therapeutic peace, forgetting its ultimate supernatural goal.

With greater severity and implacable philological rigor, the speaker deactivates the dangerous illusions that surround the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung, an author who in certain religious circles has been received with reckless enthusiasm due to his constant invocation of religious symbols, spiritual archetypes and esoteric phenomena. Dr. Verdier Mazzara conclusively demonstrates that the spiritual appearance of Jungianism is one of the most subtle epistemological tricks of modern thought. Jung's work does not draw from the crystalline sources of classical philosophy or divine Revelation, but from ancient Gnosticism, pagan syncretism, medieval alchemy and occultism. In the Jungian archetypal system, God is reduced to a manifestation of the collective unconscious, and moral evil is interpreted not as a deprivation of good nor as an offense against the Creator, but as the shadow integrated into the cosmic polarity of the self.