Viktor Frankl

After going through an event as traumatic as the Holocaust, I do not know how anyone could be the same. Viktor Frankl said that Holocaust survivors suffered “moral deformity” and “apathy”, meaning that they no longer had the same thought process as most people have and suffered from a lack of concern and enthusiasm. Even for Elie, in the book Night by Elie Wiesel, by the end of the book he as doing things he would have never thought and was not as empathetic as before. I think it is safe to say…

1. While reading the book Night I experienced some emotional responses. In the beginning I didn’t feel very much. Up until Wiesel lost his mother and sister I had very little emotion provoked. “ I didn’t know that this moment and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever.” (Wiesel 29) When I read that line I didn’t see Elie Wiesel leaving his sister and mother, I saw my mom and sister walking away from me. When he talked about the crematoria I asked the question, “why?” Why…

The first problem with unmediated self-expression is that the self is dialectically composed rather than characterized by wholeness. This inwardness, which is characterized in authenticity is no less contingent than so-called facticities; Hegel characterized it as a negation of the subject.11 The wholeness of the self uncritically presupposes an arbitrary superiority of the subject to the object. This constitutes a form of "objectivism" which fails to relate the subjective and the objective…

Frankl out, what does he have to say about life, 'For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person's life…

Charles Barkley’s hands wrapped around my shoulders. My head barely went to his armpit. The 6’6”, 250 pounder, NBA legend towered over me. We were located in the hotel lobby in Birmingham, Alabama, I was there to compete in the National Speech and Debate Tournament, he was there for fun. “That’s a good skill to have,” he said. “ To be able to communicate effectively and debate.” Is it? I have come to the conclusion, as I have contemplated this one simple question the past year , that the single…

The human mind is constantly stimulated by discovery. The act of learning something new adapts almost 7,500 new neuron connections in our brain, as well as reinforces pre existing connections. The entire time that the brain is taking in new information, it is undergoing a workout, similar to how running exercises your muscles. The brain loves learning and discovering things that new territory, which explains why human beings follow their instinctive curiosity so closely. Most can attest to…

Over the course of our 10th grade English class we have went through many informational books. Within the selections of reading I believe the main topic is courage. Courage is show through the characters in the The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Holocaust Unit, and The Merchant of Venice. The people within the writing take many risks that involve a lot of courage. I will be showing you how I look at this theme and where I see it within the reading. “Just…

Thus, his job is the “cataract” that disables him from truly living, and keeps him from establishing relationships with those around him and wholly expressing his creativity. Gabriel Conroy experiences similar feelings of disillusionment in James Joyce’s The Dead. Gabriel lives in a “cloud” of misperceptions, and constantly suffers from obsessive misinterpretations of how others perceive him. As a result, Gabriel possesses a close-minded and defensive attitude, which affects his ability to…

identify myself in this specific case. After a hard work, preparing for an environmental project, all the comity rewarded and allocated us for our perseverance and professionalism. That’s what I call happiness! Regarding Oslan (2013), Mahatma Gandhi, Viktor Frankl and Nelson Mandela are examples of influential men who illustrated perfectly the real meaning of self-actualization. These people derived happiness by giving a meaning to life. They confronted obstacles and scarified in their lives to…

Who am I? is a question I have asked myself many times and still find it hard to come up with an answer. I come from a Mexican family full of strong women. I am the only daughter in a family of seven my mom and dad included. I have 12 years living in San Diego. I am currently studying at Southwestern College and my major is computer science for transfer. But, who am I? All of the women in my family have had a rough life, my great grandma for instance; her husband was a drunk womanizer that left…