Man's Search for Meaning

Rather, she favors a position similar to that of Viktor Frankl, who writes in "Man's Search for Meaning" that, "An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior." Caplan's concern is that to pathologize these "normal" responses "as a mental illness called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) rather than recognizing them as…

This was a really good reminder for me as I considered the place of spirituality in professionalism. If I do not remember this as a Christian helper, am I really satisfying God and myself with what I do? Without having a value in the meaning of life it would be so easy to get dragged down and disheartened by the unsuccessful encounters. Although with it, I will be able to see a glimpse of good in the tough time. After all, “Christian leadership is called ministry precisely to express…

Writing through the experiences of a young girl, Jewett teaches her readers the virtues of staying true to their passions, as her main character realizes a man’s love is not what she needs to be content. According to Kelley Griffith, Sylvia, the main character, “is a backwoods girl who quests for something that the man she ‘loves’ wants, and at the climax of her quest she finds something much more valuable…

Augustine asserts that despite being the most intelligent being God created, Man’s speech and intellect are inadequate in explaining or understanding God’s essence. However, Augustine quotes Book of Wisdom, Psalms, and Prophet Isaiah when asserting that those who believe in God do not seek Him in vain. Those who seek God will find Him and find joy in the process. Augustine insists further that the search for God is continual process. After establishing the value of studying God, Augustine then…

Oedipus Theme Essay The story of Oedipus Rex is about how an unfortunate man named Oedipus, who seeks to find his true identity. Creon, a close friend to Oedipus, aids him in his search by requesting help from multiple people, Tiresias is one of them, as well as a Herald from Corinth, and a Shepherd. They tell him that his wife, Jocasta, is his mom and the former king, Laius, who he believes he killed, was his dad. Jocasta finds out about this as well and ended up hanging herself,…

an unhappy marriage where the only thing she was good for was to stand as a symbol of her husband’s wealth. This selection speaks to me about the way men portrayed women in the 18th century. The themes expressed are societies view on women, and the search for self-identity, which means that women struggled to have a voice and a life outside of their family and home. The setting of the book is in the late 1800s and reflects the scrutiny which women were facing, on issues like marriage and…

Intro Humanity’s lack of confidence dominates TS Eliot’s poetry, as he desperately attempts to find some sense of meaning in the unstructured and fragmented modernist milieu of the post-World War I era. Manifested in the constant tensions experienced by his personae, as they struggle to bring together the disparate elements of their meaningless lives, Eliot’s dramatic monologues , “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock,” (1925) and “Hollow Men” (1925) reflect the changing ideologies during the…

Brown leaves the house, he goes to the forest. Forest has a “dreary road”, “gloomiest tree”, “narrow path” (Hawthorne 1) which symbolizes the evil and sin. However, the “traveler knows not who may be concealed” (Hawthorne 1), Goodman Brown has to search the forest. Goodman Brown even said “what if the devil himself should be at my very elbow!” (Hawthorne 2). Since the path of forest is also darkness, “My father never went into the woods on such an errand, nor his father before him” (Hawthorne 2)…

displacement and the consequent experience of acculturation inevitably lead to a larger problem of a lost centre resulting in utter disorder and confusion everywhere. Disorganization, absurdity, cruelty, brutality and insensitivity which threaten man’s existence have become the main characteristic…

Desani, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Khushwant Singh, Arun Joshi and so on. As it is evident that in twentieth century man belongs to “Lost Generation”, so consequently some Indo-English Novelists have persistently dealt with the question of the search of the individual for his identity. As the problem of knowing himself has become very acute so Arun Joshi, portrays this problem in his fiction and tries to provide a solution which of course cannot be final. He is perhaps the first Indian…