Category: Man’s Search For Meaning

Unfortunately, the world we live in today is full of violence, chaos, and mass destruction and its hard to imagine living in something worse. Although, close to eight decades ago World War 2 was led by the infamous dictator named Adolf Hitler in the regime against the Jewish people. He created an environment far worse…

A mans Search for Meaning is a book written by the German author in 1946, while being entrapped in Auschwitz the Nazi concentration camp. Frankls Mans Search for Meaning is a book about suffering, pain and anguish, but the message portrayed in the book extends much deeper than that. In the book he describes his…

In the book Mans Search for Meaning, we get a personal perspective of one mans experiences and survival of the Nazi concentration camps. During World War II, Victor Frankl was separated from his wife, his parents, and everything he knew and was taken to Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist and psychotherapist. While…

In Man’s Search for Meaning, Dr. Viktor Frankl writes his memoir and encounters during the holocaust. His experiences inside the Nazi Concentration Camp is a very horrendous experience. Despite being away from family and having to endure the tremendous activities in camp, Dr. Frankl didnt lose sight of himself and the world he was in.…

Abstract Holocaust literature is primarily the literature of trauma. Witness accounts have brought to light the brutal torture the Jews were subjected to in Nazi Germany. In his work Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud argues that it is not only the memory of trauma but also the trauma of memory that is important in releasing…

Summary In Viktor Frankl ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’, he talks about suffering, he describes psychological methods, he often wonders why people who suffer from a multitude of torments did not commit suicide already, and how could they find life worth living. Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist, and neurologist who was a long-time prisoner as he experiences…

This paper claim that mans comprehension of human condition as it emerged in the most outrageous and harshest of conditions will even find meaning in life. The researcher will support his claim by presenting that what lie beyond any mans condition is a meaning that only he himself can comprehend and appreciate and not any…

Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that something else he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending (Yogananda, 2014). For millennia, religious and non-religious thinkers alike have sought to answer the ultimate questions of life, such as what happens in the afterlife?, why does suffering exist in the world?, and what is…