Abstract

This article develops the Integrative Meta-Structural Model of Existential Regeneration and Ontological Continuity (IMSEROC), a phenomenological-structural framework designed to explain the erosion and potential reconstruction of existential capacity under conditions of late modernity. While existential philosophy, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and critical social philosophy have each examined dimensions of human suffering, contemporary forms of existential destabilization increasingly exceed the explanatory scope of these isolated paradigms. The central thesis of IMSEROC is that late-modern suffering increasingly involves deterioration not merely of meaning, identity, or psychological stability, but of ontological continuity itself. Ontological continuity refers to the subject’s capacity to maintain relatively coherent integration across temporality, embodiment, intentionality, symbolic interpretation, relational participation, and existential orientation toward reality. The model argues that existential exhaustion emerges through recursive interaction among temporal destabilization, traumatic sedimentation, affective overload, symbolic constriction, hyper-performative sociocultural organization, and ontological permeability. Rather than reducing suffering to psychopathology, neurochemistry, or purely discursive construction, IMSEROC conceptualizes existential exhaustion as a structurally emergent condition operating simultaneously across phenomenological, relational, symbolic, bodily, and sociocultural dimensions. The framework further proposes that existential regeneration remains possible through gradual reconstruction of ontological continuity via interruption of erosive repetition, restoration of existential differentiation, embodied stabilization, symbolic reconfiguration, reopening of futurity, and development of sustainable existential rhythms. Methodologically, the article integrates phenomenological analysis, existential ontology, trauma-informed structural theory, and critical social analysis while maintaining non-reductionist coherence. The article concludes that the defining philosophical problem of late modernity may no longer concern meaning alone, but the preservation and regeneration of existential viability itself under conditions of structural exhaustion. Keywords Existential Exhaustion; Ontological Continuity; Phenomenology; Existential Regeneration; Philosophical Psychology; Trauma; Temporality; Embodiment; Relationality; Late Modernity.