Viktor Frankl Essay

Sort By:
Page 5 of 37 - About 369 essays
  • Decent Essays

    Man's Search For Meaning

    • 498 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Meaning is written by Viktor E. Frankl. Frankl is a psychiatrist and wrote a memoir on his life in the Holocaust work camps. Frankl was in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his family and pregnant wife perished. Surviving the Holocaust was truly an incredible journey. Throughout the book the main theme was that humans cannot avoid suffering, but we can choose how we respond to it. We can cope with our suffering, find meaning within it, and we can move forward. Frankl said, “Everything

    • 498 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    factual, historical information. Speaking of personal experiences, I took the time to read a book about a man named Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997).¹ He was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. The book is called “Man’s Search for Meaning”, and I find it to be a truthful collection of anecdotes and philosophies. For

    • 1837 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Unlike most Holocaust books, Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. The novel combines Frankl’s logotherapy theory with what goes on in a concentration camp. He explains how prisoners that looked forward to the future, were the ones to make it to liberation day. This concept of looking forward into the future can be applied to the modern-day lives of struggling people. Whether they are searching for meaning within their own lives, or just interested in how logotherapy helped people in the past

    • 631 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    Four Agreements Essay

    • 1306 Words
    • 6 Pages

    ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ by Viktor Frankl I have a better sense of relationships. After reading ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ I have a better insight of how important relationships are in your life. It is also important to have positive relationships in your life. If you are surrounded by negative relationships then it has a negative effect on your life. In this book it shows the effects of positive and negative relationship and the different effects they have. Frankl was surrounded by people who had

    • 1306 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Best Essays

    pertains to classic existential theory and logotherapy, is defined by the individual on a situational basis. It can vary based on what is essential to the individual and their well being (Existentialism-By Branch/Doctrine, The Basics of Philosophy). Frankl concentrates on what it was that drives people to live, and determined that those who survived the unspeakable circumstances of the Nazi camps had been those who focused on the meaning of their lives. Frankl’s psychological-anthropological model

    • 4000 Words
    • 16 Pages
    Best Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Meaning", Victor Frankl has proven from overcoming one of the most daunting, horrendous human experiences that he is not only very intelligent, but has one of the strongest sets of a heart and mind this world has ever seen. What's most incredible to me is that he not only made it through the center of the deadliest world war and endured the highest form of human mental and physical suffering, he had the strength and will to write about it. What I really enjoyed the most about Frankl in his story was

    • 762 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    logotherapy. I will be telling you about the history of logotherapy and the man behind it Victor E. Frankl, and how it works. The man behind the therapy Victor E. Frankl . Viktor E. Frankl was born in Vienna, Austria on March 26, 1905 and Frankl grew up in Vienna, the birthplace of modern psychiatry and home of the renowned psychiatrists Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. A brilliant student, Frankl was involved in Socialist youth organizations and became interested in psychiatry. At age 16 he began

    • 711 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    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

    • 809 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    discovering how we choose to cope and find meaning/purpose in life through unrelenting struggle is illustrated. The three-part non-fiction told by psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl, depicts his ordeal inside of concentration camps during the Second World War, elaborating on finding true meaning in life even under the most horrific circumstances. Frankl shares his process of discovery demonstrating his ability to overcome the most overwhelming experience leading to doorway of meaning, purpose and happiness

    • 712 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Freud Vs Frankl And Freud

    • 1323 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Running Head: COMPARITIVE PERSONALITY THEORIES OF SIGMUND FREUD AND VIKTOR FRANKL Comparative Personality Theories of Sigmund Freud and Viktor Frankl Luke McGeeney William James College For my comparison, I’ll be looking at the theories of Sigmund Freud and Viktor Frankl, the creators of both the first and third Viennese Schools of Psychotherapy, respectively. To begin with, I’ll examine Frankl’s theory of existential analysis known as logotherapy. Logotherapy

    • 1323 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Decent Essays