Man's Search For Meaning By Viktor E. Frankl

In The Making of Meaning, Anne E. Berthoff presents the text Learning the Uses of Chaos that will be analyzed in the essay to understand the argument presented. The author brings about the concept of composing in writing and pays particular attention to the process of composing. While the author is concerned about the composing process and the generating and using chaos in writing, the latter has not been discussed in details. The title of the text, which is learning the Use of Chaos, has not been clearly established. Additionally, the relationship between the chaos and the process of composing is not well articulated.

In Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl tells the honest story of his own experiences as an inmate in a concentration camp during World War II. In his book, Frankl answers the question “How was everyday life in a concentration camp reflected in the mind of the average prisoner?” (Frankl, 2006, p. 3) He describes the physical, emotional, and psychological torment that he endured as well as the effect that the camp had on those around him. He breaks down the psychological experience as a prisoner into three stages: the initial shock upon admission into the camp, apathy, and the mental reactions of the prisoner after liberation. He highlights certain emotions experienced throughout the time in the camp such as delusions of reprieve, hope, curiosity, surprise, and even humor.

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl is filled to the brim with rhetorical devices from all three sections of the text. Particularly in his section about logotherapy, Frankl’s practice to find an individual’s meaning of life, he explores the three main meanings of life: accomplishment, love, and suffering. This area uses a plethora of comparison, such as parallelism and metaphor. Recurring themes are used to draw back to Frankl’s three life meanings, like word repetition and alliteration. Frankl’s use of rhetorical devices allows his audience to focus on their individual possibilities and incorporate his ideology into society.

It is the story of a band of refugees attempts to escape the World War Two battlefield with nothing but hope and each other. The most obvious example of a character depending on hope to survive is Emilia, a fifteen year old Polish girl. Emilia probably has the worst experience of all the people in the novel, but she is rarely unhappy. This probably has to do with how much hope she had of survival. Throughout the journey she is always remembering her childhood in Poland and using that as motivation to continue. While reflecting on her time in Poland, she whispers, “There were no ghettos no armbands. I often fell asleep to a breeze floating through my open window. It’s true. It was like that once” (Sepetys 268). Another example of Emilia relying on hope to make it through the journey is her mental reaction to being pregnant. While the real story is extremely disturbing, Emilia tells herself that the baby’s father is the boy who she lived with before the war. That story is what gets her through the war because the moments where she remembers that the real father is a Russian soldier, she becomes depressed and scared. However, Emilia wasn’t the only person who relied on hope to get through the journey. Florian has an entirely different story of his own, and hope plays just as big of a role. He is a German soldier who has a plan to go against Hitler. The reason he is going on this

Hope helped prisoners and refugees believe there was still a chance of survival. If there was anything to convince them of remains of survival, it was hope. Such as in, Between Shades of Gray, the

In his book “Man’s Search for Meaning”, Viktor E. Frankl presents the total reconstruction of his own mind due to the catastrophic experiences in a concentration camp. Through the time of reading this story a person would expect it would be an average novel about how someone survived, but Viktor presented what it really takes to survive and the phases of how it completely changes a person. This book made me really wonder what ‘switches’ turn on and off in each person’s head; whether it is the SS, or the Capos/foreman, and even the basic prisoner. To me is a feudalistic system in which the highest level is the SS who have leisure to do as they please (the king/ emperor), the second level would be the capos and foreman’s which were twice as brutal as the SS (the nobles), and finally the prisoner/ slaves (servants/ serfs) that would have to work to stay alive by providing labor.

For him, Frankl and fellow members of his barrack tried to give despaired individuals reasons to continue on. These “meaning[s] of life, differ from man to man” (Frankl 77), but hold a power over everyone. When lost, people will succumb to death easily. Frankl indicates that his work in logo therapy is his meaning of life at the camp. No one else can research and write about this idea; therefore, he must survive to finish his book that was mercilessly taken from him upon his arrival.

Hope Victor Frankl's book Man's search for meaning has many teams that carry throughout the book leaving the reader with many question. Hope is the topic that caught my attention the most. How Viktor Frankl explores Hope is very different way than other books, or movies. He never goes fully in the the subject of Hope or how important it was for each person living in the enter meant camps but rather he goes into the lose of hope. Leaving Hope up to the reader to divulge for themselves.

Viktor Frankl’s, Man’s Search for Meaning, is a collection of his experiences in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Dachau, and Mausthausen. His book speaks a story upon survival and the thought process to survive. Viktor Emil Frankl was born on March 26, 1905 in Vienna, Austria. He received his MD and PhD degrees from the University of Vienna where he studied psychiatry and neurology, while focusing on the areas of suicide and depression. In 1492, Frankl and his family were arrested and sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Over the span of three years, Frankl was transported between four different camps.

The premise of Frankl’s book is that mankind’s desire for meaning is much stronger than its desire for power or pleasure and that if man can find meaning in life he can survive anything. Frankl introduces this idea [which he calls the theory of logotherapy] throughout his concentration camp experiences in the book’s first section and delves deeper into it in the second section. Referencing Nietzsche, Frankl tells us “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'” (p. 80). The most important thing to be learned from this statement is that no matter what your circumstances are, you can be happy, or at least survive, if you find a meaning or purpose in life. While in the concentration camp Frankl tells us that in order to maintain his desire to have a meaningful life he focused on three main things: suffering, work, and love. Of sacrifice

In Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl describes his revolutionary type of psychotherapy. He calls this therapy, logotherapy, from the Greek word "logos", which denotes meaning. This is centered on man's primary motivation of his search for meaning. To Frankl, finding meaning in life is a stronger force than any subconscious drive. He draws from his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp to create and support this philosophy of man's existence.

We are meant to become our truest selves by finding meaning in our lives, which, according to Frankl, can come from three places: work, love, and our attitude in the face of horrific suffering or difficulty. And at the center of this meaning is our responsibility and human right to choose. In Frankl’s theory, we all strive to fulfill a self-chosen goal, from which meaning has the potential to be found. And if no meaning is found, there is meaning yet to be found, or meaning to be drawn from the apparent lack of meaning. Whatever the case, Frankl viewed man’s lack of meaning as the greatest existential crisis, the stress of this meaninglessness giving life and shape to all of our neuroses.

Life was consumed by constant orders, labor, malnutrition, disease, and murder in the concentration camps. Yet somehow the human psyche in many individuals was able to endure throughout these imprisonments. Men and women were almost completely dehumanized during this genocide, but their psyche survived it. People had to find little things to keep themselves content and to nurture their psyche. “Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation” (63). Humor allows a person to escape a situation and rise above it, even if only for a short time. Humor can never be taken away from anyone because it is naturally within us. Humor within the concentration camps allowed people, for even a split second, to feel like they

Man’s Search for Meaning, is a biography and the personal memoir of Victor Frankl’s experience in a Nazi Concentration Camp. The book was initially published in 1946 in German and was then published in 1959 in English, under the title From Death-Camp to Existentialism. Prior to World War II, Victor Frankl was a psychiatrist working in Vienna and then later was responsible for running the neurology department at a Jewish Hospital in Rothschild. In 1942 he and his family were arrested and deported. They were separated and sent to concentration

In this paper I will be analysing/ reflecting on Viktor Frankl’s Man 's Search for Meaning. In my reflection I will compare the main philosophical message of frankl 's experience and try to compare its meaning to my very own life experience. In order to do this I must give you some personal background while growing up I was born with some challenging complications due to a lack of oxygen at birth I was diagnosed with ataxic cerebral palsy. The thing about ataxic cerebral palsy is that it has affected my life in many ways some miniscule others immense. I can write an entire book on my childhood / adolescence and some of the many challenges I have faced but that 's neither here