Personal Experience In Man's Search For Meaning

Man’s Search for Meaning is a captivating book written by Viktor Emil Frankl that describes Frankl’s personal experience as a condemned Jew in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Frankl provides insight on the atrocities that occurred under the Nazi regimen and shows the pain and suffering a prisoner experienced. Frankl explains that, “Life in a concentration camp tore open the human soul and exposed its depths” (Frankl, 108). It becomes clear that the prisoners in the concentration camps were not only in physical pain, but also mental pain. Frankl himself endures such pains, but these experiences give him new knowledge, insight, and wisdom that he is able to use to help others around him. Throughout his experience he attempts to

In the first part of the book titled Experiences in a Concentration Camp, Frankl highlights the accounts of his experiences in Auschwitz concentration camp and he talks about the three phases of a prisoner’s psychological reaction to the death camps. These phases include: the period after admission, the period where one is entrenched, and the period after release. In the second part of the book titled Logotherapy in a Nutshell*, Frankl provides an illustration of Logotherapy and explains that this theory presumes that one’s meaning is more important to human experience than one’s desire for power or pleasure. In the postscript titled The Case for a Tragic Optimism, Frankl clarifies that the source of meaning in one’s life comes from dignity and

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