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VIKTOR FRANKL
AND LOGOTHERAPY
• Biography
• Man´s Search for
Meaning
• Basic Tenets of
Logotherapy
• Logotherapy and Other
Psychological Schools
VIKTOR E. FRANKL, M.D., PH.D.
(1905- 1997)
Neurologist and psychiatrist
Founder of Logotherapy and
Existential Analysis
Professor of Neurology and
Psychiatry at the University of
Vienna Medical School.
Director of the Neurological
Department of Rothschild Hospital.
(1940-42)
Director of the Vienna
Neurological Policlinic. (1946-70)
Distinguished Professor of
Logotherapy, U.S. International
University, San Diego, California
University of Pittsburgh
University of Dallas, Texas
Harvard University, Cambridge
Recipient of 29 honorary
doctorates from universities in all
parts of the world.
Man's Search for Meaning
(a.k.a.: From Death-Camp to Existentialism)
1946
According to a survey conducted by the
Library of Congress (1991) it belongs to "the
ten most influential books in America."
PART ONE:
Analysis of Frankl´s
experiences in the
concentration camps
* Decent and Indecent Human
Beings
* Falsifiability
* Equation of Despair = S – M
* Counselor in a concentration
camp
PART TWO:
Introduction to Frankl´s ideas
of meaning and theory of
Logotherapy
* Tragic Triad of Human Existence
* Finite Freedom
* Hyper- intention
What´s the meaning of life?
The meaning of life differs from
person to person, from day to day
and from hour to hour.
Logotherapy, keeping in mind the
essential transitoriness , of human
existence, is not pessimistic but
rather activistic.
At any moment, man must
decide, for better or for
worse, what will be the
monument of his existence.
Existential Vacuum
Depression
Aggression
Addiction
Mass neurosis of the present time.
Private and personal form
of nihilism (contention that being has no
meaning)
Such a view of man makes a neurotic
believe that he is the pawn and victim of
outer influences or inner circumstances.
According to Logotherapy, we can discover our
meaning in life in three different ways:
(1) by creating a work or doing a deed
(2) by experiencing something (goodness, truth,
beauty, nature and culture) or encountering
someone (by experiencing another human being in
his very uniqueness; by loving him)
(3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable
suffering.
LOGOTHERAPY AND OTHER SCHOOLS OF
THOUGHT
Behaviourism
Existentialism (Sartre)
Psychoanalysis
-Self-centeredness
-Pleasure-seeking
-Past-oriented
- Instinctive drives
-Discharge of tension
Logotherapy
* Focus on the world outside of oneself
* Will to meaning
* Present / Future-oriented
* Ideals and values
* Tension between what one has already
achieved
and what one still ought to accomplish
* Self-determinism rather than
Pan-determinism
* Self-actualization is possible only as a
side-effect of self-transcendence.
Freedom is only
part of the story
and half of the
truth. Freedom
is but the
negative aspect
of the whole
phenomenon
whose positive
aspect is
responsibleness.
Works Cited
Frankl, Viktor. Man´s Search for Meaning. Boston: Beacon Press,
1992. Print.
“Life and Work.” Viktor Frankl Institute. Web. 26 October 2010.
“Life and Works of Viktor Frankl.” Logotherapy Institute. Web. 25
October 2010.
“Logotherapy.” Viktor Frankl Institute. Web. 26 October 2010.
“Tenets.” Logotherapy Institute. Web. 25 October 2010.
Works Consulted
Redsan, Anna. Viktor Frankl. A Life Worth Living. New York: Clarion
Books, 2006. Print.