Victor Frankl was a physician and neurologist until in 1942 he and his wife and parents entered Auschwitz, one of the most notorious death camps of the Nazis. He was the only one who survived.
Victor Frankl wrote,
"I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair."
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
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Freud believed in the will to pleasure.
Adler believed in the will to power.
Frankl believed in the will to meaning.
He had suffered more than any of the other two men, but from this he
came to believe that not only is meaning essential to human life, but
that it is essential that each human is responsible to create his or
her own meaning.
Logotherapy is based on three premises:
1. Life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones.
2. Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
3. We have freedom to find meaning in what we do, and what we experience, or at least in the stand we take when faced with a situation of unchangeable suffering.
He not only believed in meaning, but believed in personal responsibility for that meaning.
Frankl cautions against making too much or too little of outward goals.
He believes that there are two kinds of neurosis:
1. - hyperintention, a pathological forced intention to some end that make that end unobtainable.
2. - is hyper-reflection, an excessive attention to oneself and one's obstacles.
The goal should be balance of intention and of meaning.
More quotes:
Adler believed in the will to power.
Frankl believed in the will to meaning.
Frankl called his philosophy Logotherapy:
Logotherapy is based on three premises:
1. Life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones.
2. Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
3. We have freedom to find meaning in what we do, and what we experience, or at least in the stand we take when faced with a situation of unchangeable suffering.
He not only believed in meaning, but believed in personal responsibility for that meaning.
Frankl cautions against making too much or too little of outward goals.
He believes that there are two kinds of neurosis:
1. - hyperintention, a pathological forced intention to some end that make that end unobtainable.
2. - is hyper-reflection, an excessive attention to oneself and one's obstacles.
The goal should be balance of intention and of meaning.
More quotes:
The Meaning of Life:
"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."Man's Search for Meaning, p.172
People Always Have Control Over Attitude:
"There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces." p.106
On Choosing One's Attitude:
"Everything can be taken from a man but ...the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." p.104
"Everything can be taken from a man but ...the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." p.104
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