Lociranje iskona duševnih patnji svojstvenih ljudskoj vrsti zahtjeva pristup predmetu koji se ne da reducirati na jednu od specijalističkih metoda prirodnih znanosti, psihologije, historije i sociologije, te nadilazi one partikularnosti koje bivaju nošene razgraničenim perspektivama; kulturološkim i historijskim razmacima. Pitanje duševnih patnji pitanje je općenito-ljudskog bića, stoga je pored interdisciplinarnom metodom sabranih uvida o naravi predmeta potrebno još filozofijski sagledati predmet, ne izolirano, nego u sprezi s onom cjelinom spram koje čovjek zadobiva svoje biće kao jedno od mnogih. U tom smislu, ovo istraživanje vođeno je idejom rascijepljenosti kao paradigmom onoga što se poima duševnom patnjom, s obzirom na to što patnja pretpostavlja neki nedostatak, a moguća rješenja traži polazeći od shvaćanja ljudskog stanja kao inherentno tragičnog stanja potrebitosti.; Locating the origin of psychic suffering akin to human kind requires an approach to the subject that cannot be reduced to any special method of natural sciences, psychology, history and sociology, and it oversteps particularities which are being carried by confined perspectives; cultural and historical spacing. The question of psychic suffering is a question regarding a human being in general, and thus except for insights compiled by the interdisciplinary method, we also need a philosophical investigation of the subject. It is not meant in the sense of isolation, rather as coupled with that wholeness by which a human being attains its being as being one among many. In a sense given, this investigation is guided by an idea of rupturedness as a paradigm of what is considered to be psychic suffering, conditioned by the fact that suffering presupposes a sort of deficiency. The paper seeks possible solutions starting from understanding the human condition as an inherently tragic state of neediness.