Auschwitz Concentration Camp By Taylor Frankl

Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning describes life in a concentration camp and the mental and emotional effects that come with it. "Life in a concentration camp tore open the human soul and exposed it depths" (87). This essay details some of the specific themes of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. Two of the main themes in this book are love and hope.

Everyone experiences emotional and physiological obstacles in their life. However, these obstacles are incomparable to the magnitude of the obstacles the prisoners of the Holocaust faced every day. In his memoir, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates the horrors of the concentration camps and their mental tool. Over the course of Night, Wiesel demonstrates, that exposure to an uncaring, hostile world leads to destruction of faith and identity.

He shares his story like many holocaust survivors had, but he chooses to focus on others more often than himself when he is making a point, an example of this is when he focuses on his friend’s F--- hopes which slowly die away as time begins to pass and nothing is fulfilled for him; and so with his hopes, the man also dies. F---’s hope was to see freedom come, and when it did not his body gave way to Typhus. His experiences are in sections; he places them in perspective by (1) arrival to the camps, (2) the degradation of live in the camps, and (3) then finally upon being released or liberated from the camps. Frankl’s and his fellow inmate’s struggles illuminated a path that was chosen and sought, beyond their immediate incapacities. “The opposite of humanity is brutality, the failure to acknowledge the humanity of one’s fellow man, the failure to be sensitive to his needs, to his situation. Brutality is often due to a failure of imagination as well as to the tendency to treat a person as a generality, to regard a person as an average man,” relevance of this quote is in regard to the Kapos, fellow inmates who disregard another person’s life for their own benefit. Upon arriving to the camps, they lose liberty. Once adapted to the life in the camps, they begin a search (this is the moment where community is sought) “Man achieves fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others. He expands his

Frankl trusted that in spite of the fact that the Nazi 's could force much suffering on him, could rid of his family, and could detain him, they could not choose how he was. He had control over the way he would act, respond, and carry on. Regardless of what they did, he would choose his conduct and be in charge of it. My aim is neither to abridge the book for you, nor to clarify the ideas of existential treatment, so I will move here to my evaluation and reaction to Frankl 's book. To start with, I need to repeat that this book is a superb read. For anybody new to the outrages of a death camp, the tale of human triumph even with such barbarities alone is justified regardless of the read. It also gives a rule to engage people to take liability for their life, and to make importance in it. It gives a model of living over the impact of condition. The initial stage is portrayed by the indication of shock. Frankl speaks of his entry via train at the notorious Auschwitz, when he and his kindred detainees ' underlying stun and frightfulness rapidly offered a path to the condition known as the "delusion of reprieve", the conviction that they would be spared at last, that things couldn 't be as horrendous as they appeared. Frankl portrays how, not for the last time, he sat tight for destiny to follow through to its logical end as the detainees proceeded remaining before a SS officer who coolly guided them toward the right, which implied they looked physically and

In additional, a unique lines from his book read, “Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.” During this Frankl utters that sorrow is an outcome of feeling and that as quickly as we understand this misery then that is when we are able to put an stop to the grief. Frankl believed the convicts sufferings were in stages, they presented reactions in three dissimilar phases. First stage was the thoughts of these jailbirds instantly after remaining imprisoned and driven off to the numerous diverse concentration camps. Secondly, stage two was their thoughts after imprisonment and the prisoners becoming familiarized to the ordinary life of penal. The third stage was their thoughts after

From the existential perspective, not only does the quest for meaning follow from an acceptance of mortality, but the attainment of meaning can overshadow the prospect of death. As Austrian existential psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl observed, "We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to

When reviewing Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning Psychologist K. M. McCann says, “It goes without saying that Frankl’s seminal text is well worth reading and should, by most counts, be required for all students of psychology.” It is important to note that Frankl’s work is not a textbook, rather in Frankl’s 1992 preface he said that he “wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones,” (XIV). So why then would a McCann recommend his book to psychology students? Because he understands that Frankl a book about psychology that transcends his audience’s circumstances and backgrounds. He sets his writing apart by not following the traditional self-help formula of step by step betterment. Many of his arguments are supported by, or rely on, quotes from noted authorities. And because of the narrative’s setting within Nazi concentration camps Frankl paints a vivid emotional picture. Frankl succeeds in his mission to make Man’s Search for Meaning a book that reaches every reader by forming logical arguments that are backed up by contextualizing his arguments through emotion and expert reference.

"Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.”(Frankl).The way people react during hard times shows a lot about that person. When a person

An Introspective Look at Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning and Logotherapy There is an old adage that implies that “into every life, a little rain must fall,” which suggests that some amount of suffering, be it miniscule or great, is an unavoidable part of every human being’s existence. Undoubtedly, there are circumstances in one’s life that are beyond his or her control. Circumstances that will cause one to question his or her very existence and pose the question “Why me?” Viktor Frankl experienced such an event when he was imprisoned in several Jewish concentration camps during the Holocaust. Frankl’s novel, Man’s Search for Meaning (2006), gives an account of Frankl’s time spent in Jewish concentration camps. During this harrowing experience, Frankl used the daily occurrences that surrounded him to observe and analyze the impact that such suffering has on man. During his time in the camp, Frankl was stripped of his identity, his family, and all of his material

In part one of "A Man's Search for Meaning", Dr Frankl gives a glimpse in the world of the holocaust through the eyes of a prisoner in a Jewish concentration camp. He explains the three psychological reactions that all prisoners experienced in one way or another. The first stage, shock. The prisoners saw many alarming sights when riding in on the train: “long stretches of several rows of barbed wire fences; water towers; searchlights; and long columns of ragged human figures.” They didn’t know how to feel in this situation and their imaginations started running wild with different scenarios of what was going to happen in there. Frankl discloses a psychiatric condition known as "delusion of reprieve", it is described as "The condemned man, immediately

Man’s Search for Meaning is a sentimental memoir about the struggles of a psychologist during the holocaust as a victim, and how he eventually developed logotherapy, a form of therapy, from his observations. The first portion of the memoir affected me the most because his first time doing even the basic activities like bathing were filled with fear and terror. Frankl’s use of imagery to describe his fear and the events that occurred lets the readers sympathize with the victims. The facts he stated throughout the memoir really helped me understand the gravity of the situation he was in. This memoir has taught me that the challenges and other difficulties in life can help you later in life. Another lesson this memoir has taught me is that challenges

Here he outlines a theory of Logotherapy as a psychological technique for helping people. In this section, Frankl discusses the basics of this approach to therapy and supports it by referring to some work with patients and again his own experiences in the concentration camps. The writing is less an autobiographical account and more a detailed presentation of psychological terms and concepts associated with logotherapy. Through an examination of logotherapy, Frankl contrasts its approach with traditional psychoanalysis and emphasizes it is the only form of therapy that can help people with their search for meaning. The meaning of life can be discovered in three ways. First, one can perform a deed. Second, one can experience something or encounter someone. Or thirdly, one can demonstrate a certain attitude toward suffering. Concepts of existential frustration, noogenic neuroses, and life's transitoriness are addressed in terms of their relative impact on a person's search for and perception of

In Viktor Frankl’s, “Man’s Search for Meaning,” he discusses his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, and how people live through unthinkable tortures. Frankl investigates the psychology of how people attach meaning to life. In the Nazi camps, people are stripped of everything they have, yet somehow many people fight on, even though it appears that they have nothing more for which to live. He details his own experience in a contraction camp, and observes that there are three steps in processing such a horrendous event. The first is the initial shock, the second learning live with it, and finally life afterwords. At the beginning the natural inclination is to react to horrors that one witnesses and experiences, but after time one becomes numb to the things that once produced immense shock or disgust.

As I read our reading assignment in our textbook The Philosopher’s Way by John Chaffee I came upon the section in Chapter One that spoke of Viktor Frankl and his horrific imprisonment in the ghastly concentration camp. Frankl said “Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.” In that phrase I was curious to find out more about this man and how he put his theory to the ultimate test in the worst of human conditions imaginable to modern man. In nine days Frankl wrote Man’s Search for Meaning which has over 12 million copies in print. A 1991 Library

Discovered as a means of survival throughout his time as a concentration camp inmate during the Holocaust, Frankl found that it was possible to take a stand against the confines of our natural biology, overcoming these limitations to make the autonomous choice of self-transcendence. He found that, even under the most extreme and terrible circumstances, we as a species are capable of overcoming our baser instincts, to reach out beyond ourselves for something greater, and to be truly selfless. Frankl saw this dualistic potential as a universal functioning of human nature, that within us all is the responsibility to choose,