The universality of the virtual absence of Critical Psychology in Flanders. Some personal remarks

Critical Psychology in Flanders can easily be considered as virtually absent. But what is the true bearing of that expression virtually absent? Does it mean, almost absent but not yet fully absent? Are there perhaps some critical germs to be discerned? However, instead of searching for those particular instances of some criticality in psyFlanders, I will try to show in this paper that it is perhaps more interesting to move from the supposed virtual absence to the issue of virtuality as such and to argue that absence plays a central part in it. That is, I shall, starting from the particular Flemish situation, make a short survey into how psychology as such (in a universal way) can itself be said to be paradigmatically close to the virtual. The specific virtual absence of critical psychology in Flanders can thus be used to come to an understanding of the psy-complex in these late-modern