Personality Collapse: How Absent Fathers Sabotage the Soul
Boundaries aren’t just a personal skill—they're an inheritance. And for many men, that inheritance never came. Instead, what got passed down was emotional neglect, explosive rage, or the dead weight of a father who simply disappeared into his work, his ego, or his silence. This is the fatherless gap—what psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan framed as the missing “Name-of-the-Father.”
In this essay-adapted podcast episode, Enrique Arteaga exposes how widespread personality collapse has become—not from trauma per se, but from the absence of masculine scaffolding. Using the theories of Otto Kernberg and real-world client experiences, he shows how men raised without healthy modeling either implode into shame, explode into volatility, or dissociate entirely.
This collapse is not just psychological—it’s relational, erotic, professional.
And it’s avoidable.
The antidote?
Structure. Containment. A recalibration of the masculine nervous system through PrecisionCycle’s seven-fold methodology:
Containment over repression
Boundary insertion as architecture
Shame metabolization
Emotional accuracy
Assertiveness training
Erotic recalibration
Ego maturation
This is not therapy. This is structural optimization for the men who’ve outgrown their diagnosis—and are ready to build something real.
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