Viktor Frankl

Famished inmates of Auschwitz’ concentration camp, including author Victor E. Frankl, sought bread above any other essential. Bread became solely a necessity. Prisoners of the Holocaust found themselves situated in a daily struggle to survive through the beatings, hunger, cold weather, worn rags and wrong-sized shoes, but more intensely through the psychological journey that each one of them had to undertake. Frankl notes that Man’s Search for Meaning is not another story in which the typical…

In the book Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl we see that life in a concentration camp was no easy thing. They have to face so many horrible things and witness life traumatizing events simply because of the religion that they are. From the beginning of the book the to end, it is filled with the horrors of the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Viktor shares with us his experiences and the things that he endured while at Auschwitz. One line that I thought was powerful and really…

Viktor Frankl’s Meaning Through Suffering For the duration of human existence, there have been shared characteristics that are innate to humans. These characteristics are centred around giving meaning to one’s life and questioning one’s existence. These questions of existence have been pondered by all of humanity, from some of the greatest thinkers to the average human being. In the preface to the 1992 edition of Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning (2006), he supports the idea that all…

In Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl documents in great details his time as an inmate at Auschwitz in his book where he ties in his personal experiences and analyzes existential concepts concerning the human psyche. While exploring whether human existence is contingent on a person’s responsible-ness, even in the most extreme and unpleasant situations, Frankl illuminates on key ideas concerning suffering, human existence, and the meaning of life. This paper will be exploring…

Happiness is a feeling that can do so much in ones life, but Viktor Frankl did not experience happiness to help him gain inspiration to live through a hard situation he once lived through. Viktor Frankl felt he had to be strong to survive and even though happiness was not present during that time in his life, he believed it was a freedom no one could take away. With this element he was able to concur a very big obstacle like being captured by Nazis where he was taken to a concentration camp, and…

For some, life without meaning is equivalent to death. Does this mean that if life has no true meaning, why bother living if the end result is dying? The meaning of life is discussed in both Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, and The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker. Both books illustrate how enduring suffering, letting go of objects and accepting death allows and motivates humans to feel meaningful. Man’s Search for Meaning includes Viktor’s real life experiences from concentration…

The purest nature of man is a heavily debated subject between philosophers. In Viktor Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl shares his perspective on human nature. His view of human nature is a blend of both Hobbesian pessimism and Rousseauian optimism. . When speaking about the final psychological phase of camp life, Frankl suggests a gloomy view of humans. He states, “During this psychological phase one observed that people with natures of a more primitive kind could not escape the…

The authors of these excerpts both experienced something very traumatic; the holocaust and death marches. The holocaust was when many, many Jews were killed. They were taken on death marches transport them to a more suitable place of death. Victor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning was placed in four different concentration camps between the years of 1942-1945. Although he went through terrible events, he was still able to find a reason to go on. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night was…

Atticus and Dr. Frankl Dr. Viktor Frankl said his speech was about a new approach in psychotherapy that focused on the human search for meaning. Dr. Frankl hit the nail on the head when talking about man makes man worse. Atticus acquired this knowledge throughout “ To Kill a Mockingbird” by making sure he aimed higher than he could achieve to maintain his growth in becoming a better person, which is Dr. Frankl is trying to get his audience to understand. Throughout “ To Kill a Mockingbird”,…

One way she achieves this by bringing to light the irony behind the concept of the pursuit of happiness. Viktor Frankl put it more eloquently when he said, “It’s the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness” (Smith, E., 2013). People who seek a happy life end up spending most of their time pursuing it instead of actually being happy in the present moment…