Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist who has experienced the Nazi detention camp during the World War II. Through his journey and suffering in the detention camp, Frankl has managed to not only survive, he discovered many other things in life and psychology. Through his account of of stories and Logotherapy, I have found…
Viktor E. Frankl. (1959). Man’s Search for Meaning.
“… the typical self-centeredness of the neurotic is broken up instead of being continually fostered and reinforced.”
(p.96)
“According to Jean-Paul Sartre, man invents himself, he designs his own “essence”, that is to say, what he essentially is including what he should be, or ought to become. However, I think the meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.”
(p.99)
“Man, however, is to live and even to die for the sake of his ideals and values!”
(p.97)
“There is much wisdom in the words of the Nietzsche: He who has a why to live for can bear almost anyhow.” (p.104)
