Viktor E. Frankl---“Man's Search 4 Meaning“

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“Man’s Search for Meaning”
While reading Viktor E. Frankls, “Man’s Search for Meaning”, I discovered many thesis’s. I’m only going to share the few that I thought really caught my eye. “(Of the inmates) it can be said that they were worthy of their sufferings; the way they bore their sufferings was genuine inner achievement. It is this spiritual freedom-which cannot be taken away--that makes life meaningful and purposeful” (Frankl, pg 87). “The prisoner who had lost faith in the future-his future--was doomed. With his loss of belief in the future, he also lost his spiritual hold; he let himself decline and became subject to mental and physical decay” (Frankl, pg 95). “It was a question of getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them. This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence has a bearing on creative work as much as it does on human love” (Frankl, pgs 100-101). I think that Frankl was trying to tell his reads, if you would give up in the concentration camps that there was no reason to even try to live. In Frankls words “Prisoners with a vision beyond the torture had a mission to survive”.
What is the meaning to one’s life? Viktor Frankl tries to answer this question that has overwhelmed mankind for centuries. Frankls book is divided into three sections that begins with his own experiences of the concentration camps and the relative stories of lost hope or gained hope. The last two sections cover logotherapy, the way it works and the many cases that he thinks logotherapy provides success.
The first stage of the book people were treated in a manner that was cruel, senseless and for which there was no frame of reference. All their choices were taken away. They were treated as a sub-human, much like objects or worthless vermin. Ther...