Frankl here concerns himself with that murky line between psychological analysis and religious exploration that both intertwine with self-development. His religious discussion is decidedly open and mystical when he writes that religion goes beyond the "concept of God promulgated by many representatives of denominational and institutional religion".

Since visiting Auschwitz in 2016, I try to read every year a Holocaust-related book. Thanks to the book club, I read ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ by Viktor Frankl. An inspirational exploration of the psychology that enabled Viktor Frankl, bestselling author of Man's Search for Meaning, to survive the Holocaust This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Frankl explayando su logoterapia dirá que el inconsciente no es algo impulsivo, sino que ve en él elementos espirituales. Lo cataloga sí, de impulsivo pero a su vez es espiritual. Dicha dimensión ayuda a una rehabilitación del inconsciente, que para eso existe lo espiritual; No es una idea nueva, de hecho es una división de frontera muy nítida pero vital. Several years ago, at a very young age (in my 20s), I became ill with a disease that left me bedridden and barely able to speak above a whisper. Now 36, I am still bedridden and fighting the same battle. It is Frankl's reminder to find meaning and purpose in suffering (which I found in the love of my fiancé and my hope of recovery) that has helped me to get through each difficult day. As Frankl tells us, "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

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Overall, I would recommend this book to those interested in psychology, or those who want to read an inspiring tale by someone who survived the Nazi death camps and used his experience to transcend himself. Frankl veers into the spiritual side in the second portion of the book, which might perturb a few people, but for the most part he keeps his ideas open to everyone. For the rest of the review I'm just going to write down all of the book because it was so good a few of the quotes about logotherapy that stood out to me, so I can reference them later on. Feel free to read or skip. No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same." I was also keen to find out what he felt he learnt from this experience about how to live a good life. I have to say that I found this part of the book quite unsatisfying. His discussion of ‘logotherapy’ left me cold, I’m afraid. I don’t really like books that say things that amount to – this guy came to see me about some problem that had plagued his life for decades, I said three sentences to him and he went away with a skip and a spring in his step. According to a survey conducted by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Library of Congress, Man's Search for Meaning belongs to a list of "the ten most influential books in the United States." [1] At the time of the author's death in 1997, the book had sold over 10 million copies and had been translated into 24 languages. [2] [3] Editions [ edit ]

I read this book for the first time during my senior year in high school. The year prior, I had gone to Germany for spring break with some fellow classmates. During the trip, we spent a day visiting a former WWII concentration camp in Dachau. As one might expect, this visit had a profound effect on me. I had of course read and knew about the atrocities that occurred under the Nazi regime, but to actually see a camp in person is a deeply haunting and disturbing experience. Perhaps for this reason, Frankl's book affected me even more deeply than it otherwise might have.Se trata de un libro estupendo sin duda, que nos muestra que el ser humano a pesar de todo el sufrimiento y las angustias, tiene el potencial de trascender. Mas allá de la búsqueda del placer, del poder, existe la búsqueda del sentido en nuestra vida. Frankl crítica el psicoanálisis de Freud, que considera al ser humano que esta sometido a sus pulsiones por el principio de realidad y la busqueda del placer. Frankl acepta que la Logoterapia y el Psicoanálisis son complementarios. Personalmente considero que justamente el psicoanálisis explica la personalidad cuando no se ha logrado aún trascender la conciencia y tener la fuerza para lograr una autocomprensión ontológica prereflexiva. Considero que la logoterapia es la alternativa para impulsarse hacia adelante cuando ya se ha logrado una resolución al conflicto neurótico o cuando se posee una fuerza suficiente para impulsar el desarrollo de la conciencia. Muchas veces necesitaremos ayuda para esto. Nothing was left of the prisoners’ lives but their hope for liberation and their nakedness to the inevitability of death surrounding them. But amid the gamut of terrors, for three years, Frankl, who was a psychiatrist before the occupation, investigated the camp’s psychology and secretly jotted down notes on scraps of paper that served as the manuscript for his own psychotherapeutic theory: that is logotherapy (logos is Greek for meaning).

One thing that is increasingly common is this departure from faith, tradition and religion. I think it’s a shame, because all this can teach people a lot. In addition, he goes through all the main fundamentals of the psychological school created by Viktor Frankl, albeit superficially. Viktor Frankl, bestselling author of Man’s Search for Meaning, explains the psychological tools that enabled him to survive the Holocaust Viktor Frankl is known to millions as the author of Man’s Search for Meaning, his harrowing Holocaust memoir. In this book, he goes more deeply into the ways of thinking that enabled him to survive imprisonment in a concentration camp and to find meaning in life in spite of all the odds. He expands upon his groundbreaking ideas and searches for answers about life, death, faith and suffering. Believing that there is much more to our existence than meets the eye, he says: ‘No one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.’ In Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning, Frankl explores our sometimes unconscious desire for inspiration or revelation. He explains how we can create meaning for ourselves and, ultimately, he reveals how life has more to offer us than we could ever imagine. Firește, Viktor Emil Frankl (1905 - 1997) nu și-a propus să ofere (încă) o relatare a anilor petrecuți în lagăr de un inocent, ci o meditație asupra individului captiv și a transformărilor suferite de psihicul său. Poți să fii de acord (sau nu) cu ideile sale, dar ele provin dintr-o experiență-limită, asupra căreia autorul a meditat îndelung. How is it possible to write dispassionately of life in a concentration camp in such a way as to engender great feeling in the reader? This is how Frankl dealt with his experience of those terrible years. The dispassionate writing makes the horrors of the camp extremely distressing, more so than writing that is more emotionally involved. It is almost reportage. The first half of the book is equal in its telling to The Diary of a Young Girl in furthering our understanding of those dreadful times.

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tema que menciona Frankl es la interpretación de los sueños de Freud, que son controlados por la conciencia y en que parte de los sueños se ve reflejada la religiosidad. Cuando se explaya en éste tema, sentí la lectura más atrapante.