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Man's Search For Meaning

A Search for Meaning

In Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl creates his personal, yet revolutional, type of therapy. He calls this therapy, logotherapy, the prefix of the word is taken from the Greek word “logos”, which denotes meaning. This derivation is chosen because logotherapy is centered on a human's primary motivation to search for the means in which he exists. To Frankl, finding meaning in life is a stronger force than any subconscious drive. He draws from his own, personal experiences in a Nazi concentration camp to create and support the definition of man’s existence.
Frankl endured an unimaginable amount of pain and suffering throughout his experiences in the concentration camp. After his possessions were stripped from him, including the manuscript in which he recorded all of his life’s work, he was sentenced to hellacious manual labor, extreme physical degradation, such as marches through sub-zero temperatures, and deprivation of food. As if it......


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