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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

Reflection of “Man’s Search for Meaning,” by Viktor Frankl John R. Miller Edinboro University   Reflection of “Man’s Search for Meaning,” by Viktor Frankl Viktor Frankl (2006), describes the purpose of a man’s journey of survival as he lives in four concentration camps within a 3-year period and having the journey continue after being liberated. Frankl was a psychiatrist and neurologist who worked in Rothschild Hospital during 1940, which at the time was one of the few hospitals to allow Jews to

Frankl added a postscript to this book called “The Case for Tragic Optimism”. In this paper, I’m going to critically summarize this postscript by explaining the overall thesis along with the most important points Frankl uses to support his thesis. I will also explain where I agree or disagree with Frankl’s various points and why. The overall thesis of Frankl’s book is that “life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones”(prologue xiv). The word potential there

time of Buddha. In Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl recounts his time in the Nazi death camps during The Holocaust, and uses the framework of his theory, logotherapy, to describe how he found meaning in midst of his suffering. Finally, Ikiru is a Japanese film that tells the story of Mr. Watanabe, who struggles to make meaning of his final days of living upon finding out he has a terminal cancer. Using the logotherapy that Viktor Frankl centers his novel around, meaning can be found through

Viktor Frankl asserts the idea of “will to meaning,” which is essentially the desire to find meaning and purpose in an individual’s life (Frankl 99). Frankl explains that this intrinsic desire to find meaning acts the “primary motivational force” in man, and it is essential for survival (Frankl 99). He supports this idea by citing a survey in which when asked what was important, 16% of students answered “making a lot of money”, while 78% said “finding a purpose and meaning to my life” (Frankl 100)

In the book Man’s Search for meaning, author Viktor Frankl describes his experiences with the horrible conditions in concentration camps. This included many days of extreme labor, disease with not enough medicine to treat each victim, and this was only if you survived the weeding out process in the beginning to determine whether or not one was fit to work. Human beings lost value and individuality, they became animalistic. They were just a number, and it was a constant fight to stay alive and healthy

Viktor Frankl wrote the book Man’s Search for Meaning. The book is about how to cope with suffering, finding significance in it, and moving on from it with a reestablished mindset and motivation. Viktor Frankl earned both a M.D. and a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. He has published over 30 books on psychology and has also lectured at Ivy League universities such as Harvard, Stanford and many other institutions. Frankl’s theory was one that contradicted Sigmund Freud’s. Logotherapy is the

experiences we undergo in our lifetime are destined, nearly inevitable. Mans search for meaning urges us to acknowledge that “we cannot avoid suffering, but we can chose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose”. Viktor Frankl was faced with an experience of inevitable suffering during his time spent at various concentration camps during the second World War. It is these experiences and sufferings that set the narrative in his novel “Mans Search for Meaning”, where he uses

Man’s Search for Meaning is one of the most influential autobiographies in the world. The memoir is written by Viennese-Jewish psychiatrist Viktor Emil Frankl. He was imprisoned in the Nazi death camps during World War II, and is one of the few people who survived the brutal hardship. Meno is one of the five dialogues written by Plato that conveys Plato’s and Socrates’ philosophical ideas. Socrates was one of the greatest and wisest philosophers in Athens, and still holds that title in today’s society

However, Viktor Frankl took it a step further and combine it with logotherapy and his own experiences with suffering. While most people struggling to find meaning in their lives aren't in as serious of a situation as a concentration camp, they are still suffering. Frankl says that "he who has a why to live for can bear almost any how" (Frankl ). He tells people that by finding a reason to get through the suffering, they may find