Man's Search for Meaning

“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.” This is a quote I read from Viktor Frankl’s book titled Man’s Search for Meaning. This novel is centered around a doctor in a Jewish concentration camp and his psychological examinations of how prisoners found meaning in their lives. In my “next moment”, I want to help others not only in my own community but outside of it, as well. The aspects of SCU’s strategic vision that…

is stark. In Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl a psychiatrist through his experiences in concentration camps under Hitler’s regime discovers his answer to the basic question that makes us human. Philosophers have long debated the purpose of life and have produced answers ranging from orthodox religion, the meaning of life is given to everyone by God, to nihilism, there is no meaning to life. Despite the atrocities of concentration camps, Frankl determines his purpose and meaning of life…

This novel was not simply a summary of all the horrors Viktor Frankl experienced at concentration camps but rather a way to find a meaning for suffering. He used various scenarios he was put in and tried to grasp it in a mindful way where he can find a purpose in it. The dignity of a human person was often ridiculed and suppressed throughout the camp life so giving up and losing hope…

happiness because as Viktor Frankl, a survivor of the holocaust, wrote in his book Man’s Search for Meaning “Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.” The “why” he refers to is what allowed people to survive during the holocaust, as they suffered under the most cruel regime faced by any people, he expanded on this idea, “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” Those who had something to look forward to, who could hope for a…

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…

Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning gave a vivid picture of his time spent in a concentration camp during World War II. He gives us a look inside of all the indignities he suffered while in a concentration camp, short of being killed. He uses his experience in a concentration camp to provide evidence of his method of therapy, “Logotherapy”, which is a form of existential therapy. Although Nazi soldiers imposed great suffering on him, he continued to believe that they could not control…

Fromm were to approach the question of what to do in the face of cultural devastation, he would say that man must stay true to his original identity to be free. If Frankl were to respond to this question, he would say to search for a will to meaning, because when someone has meaning in his or her life, anything is possible. An entire civilization on the brink of ending is a scary thought. The name of Lear’s book is the main point in the story. By saying that people must cling to radical hope,…

Throughout Wiesel 's experience Wiesel describes , “[An] old man [mumbling] something and died. Nobody cared. His son searched him, took the crust of bread, and began to devour it” meaning that when it came down to it, even family did not matter in survival (Wiesel 101). This changes the identity of many of the Jews, because it disrupts their morals in terms of whether or not to kill someone for survival. This causes them to question…

want his daughter to see him abnormal. He shares that this is the only reason that makes possible his survival from depression and from his harmful habits. Just as it is stated in Logotherapy he survives because he finds his meaning in life, which is to be a father. Another meaning of his life that he shares, is to become an addiction counselor “I am in college and I will graduate with my associates in the spring of 2015. My dream is to become an addiction counselor and I won’t stop until I get…

from the loss of the delusion of reprieve; it often results in the evaporation of the hope of others, causing further submission. Rebellion is an alternative response to adversity that allows oneself to take ownership of one’s situation and derive meaning thereof; rebellion inspires hope that encourages others to embrace their…