Man's Search For Meaning By Victor Frankl

Man’s Search for Meaning Victor Frankl’s book is one of the most important works in the 20th century psychology. Frankl was Austrian-Jewish psychotherapist, who worked in the beginning of the century with the famouse psychologists Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. His own ideas had insignificant impact on the neuro science and philosophy. In the books preface he speculates about the reasons for human to live, for the meaning of our lives and things important for every human being. He presents some pieces of sociological survey determining that second most common reason causing students death in America (after car accidence) is committing suicide. According to the researcher, most of those who tried or wanted to kill themselves, felt that their life had no meaning or importance. They spoke about the feeling of isolation and separation from the natural environment. Doctor Frankl tries to answer the question about the life meaning, using his own frightening experience of …show more content…
He developed his own unique method – logotherapy, based on the existential analysis. Existentialism – is a philosophical “school” that appeared in the middle of 20th century and worked with the problem of ethics, freedom, oppression and meaning of the human life. “Man’s Search for Meaning” structure consists of two main parts. First - authors diary, telling the story of the imprisonment and struggle for the survival in the concentration camps. Second part sets out the logotherapy theoretical aspects. The story starts in the 19 October 1944, when Frankl his wife and other relatives were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. It was the last time they saw each other. Most of the author’s relatives and his lovely wife died in the “death factories”. However, his book starts with the description of the arrival to the camp and first