https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167819852234 Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1–18 © The Author(s) 2019 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/0022167819852234 journals.sagepub.com/home/jhp Rehumanizing Psychotherapy - Contemporary Existential and Jungian Perspectives Dostoevsky, Existential Therapy, and Modern Rage: On the Possibility of Counseling the Underground Man Kevin Aho 1 Abstract It is often said today that we live in the “Age of Rage.” This article explores the phenomenon of modern rage through an analysis of the psychic conflicts of Dostoevsky’s “underground man,” as he tries to reconcile the newly imported values of modernity with his own needs and desires. By interpreting rage through the classic Greek notion of the daimonic, the author examines how the modern attempt to rationally control and suppress rage actually exacerbates the underground man’s destructive, cruel, and self-defeating behavior and cuts him off from the possibility of emotional connectivity and wholeness. He concludes by pointing to some therapeutic possibilities within the tradition of existential psychotherapy that might have allowed the underground man to better understand and heal himself by recognizing the daimonic roots of his own rage. Keywords The Brothers Karamazov, the daimonic, Dostoevsky, existential psychotherapy, Rollo May, philosophical counseling, Notes from the Underground, rage, wholeness 1 Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL, USA Corresponding Author: Kevin Aho, Department of Communication and Philosophy, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Boulevard South, Fort Myers, FL 33965, USA. Email: kaho@fgcu.edu 852234JHP XX X 10.1177/0022167819852234Journal of Humanistic PsychologyAho research-article 2019