Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

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Also, if we have no way out of the suffering situation, we need to change ourselves and use this occasion as a maturation. Otherwise, suffering will be of no use. Negative Points of Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning

The second part did sometimes challenge my brain cells with concepts like this: I never tire of saying that the only really transitory aspects of life are the potentialities; but as soon as they are actualized, they are rendered realities at that very moment; they are saved and delivered into the past, wherein they are rescued and preserved from transitoriness. For, in the past, nothing is irretrievably lost but everything is irrevocably stored.I had to read that one two or three times before I felt like I really grasped what Frankl was saying. And this one: Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!I assume it's to help give us motivation to avoid making a wrong choice, by thinking through the likely consequences of what we are about to do. But there are so many nuggets of wisdom in this short volume. A few things that really impacted me: We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. Pytell, Timothy (June 3, 2003). "Redeeming the Unredeemable: Auschwitz and Man's Search for Meaning". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 17 (1): 89–113. doi: 10.1093/hgs/17.1.89– via Project MUSE. I never thought the book would actually deal with psychiatry, neuroses and some basic mental health issues. Me sorprendió en la última parte donde Frankl habla de otras dimensiones que permiten entender el azar aparente que se da en la realidad. Es una metáfora muy interesante para comprender la búsqueda del sentido. Es asombroso que haya puntos de coincidencia con Bohm en su concepto de la totalidad y el orden implicado por vías muy diferentes.

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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". Lately, I have been evaluating Frankl's messages about Love, that: "Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire" and "Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him". Frankl divides his inspiring book into two parts. The first describes his experience living in Nazi death camps and how he dealt with the doom and decay that always surrounded him. He laces his story with astute, dispassionate observations about his emotions and the suffering of those around him. The second section explores a type of therapy that arose from his time in the death camps: logotherapy. Logotherapy focuses on helping people find meaning in their lives, to give them a greater sense of purpose and to push them past the obstacles they face. He writes that people can discover meaning in three different ways: 1) by creating a work or doing a deed, 2) by experiencing something or encountering someone, and 3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering (this last option is only meaningful when the first two are unavailable). The main lessons of Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning are: 1. The relationship with God is important for man

It is quite hard to recommend Holocaust-related books, but out of all I have read, I find this one the most spiritual one. mai bine la realitate pacientului său, realitate cu care până la urmă fiecare terapeut trebuie să lucreze. Alt lucru binevenit în logoterapie este orientarea individului către un țel (deși Frankl admite că acest lucru ține de voliția individului).

Suddenly I decided to take fate into my own hands for once. I ran out of the hut and told my friend that I could not go with him. As soon as I had told him with finality that I had made up my mind to stay with my patients, the unhappy feeling left me. I did not know what the following days would bring, but I had gained an inward peace that I had never experienced before. I returned to the hut, sat down on the boards at my countryman's feet and tried to comfort him..." After the Book of Mormon, this would be my second recommendation to anyone looking for purpose in life. Frankl survives to speak the full agenda and unequivocal goal of his therapeutic doctrine— Logotherapy—which is explained and explored in the second part of this book. Frankl’s theory of Logotherapy, when reduced to its simplest form, is clear, precise, and easy to both grasp and appreciate: that “life holds meaning under any condition,” therefore the purpose of Logotherapy is for one to be “confronted with, reoriented towards the meaning of his life.” From this deceptive simplicity, however, arises a practice of meaning-making that is complex, challenging, unresolved, and ongoing. about how we mistakenly use money and sex to replicate meaning) "Moreover, there are various masks and guises under which the existential vacuum appears. Sometimes the frustrated will to meaning is vicariously compensated for by a will to power, including the most primitive form of the will to power, the will to money. In other cases, the place of frustrated will is meaning is taken by the will to pleasure. That is why existential frustration often eventuates in sexual compensation. We can observe in such cases that the sexual libido becomes rampant in the existential vacuum."