Man's Search for Meaning (All Questions)

No. Only in the last few weeks.

Shock

The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute.

The verdict made by an officer as to whether or not a person could be useful (work). Those who were not deemed useful were sent straight to the gas chambers.

No. All of it would be taken from them one way

Frankl and the other prisoners said it in response to Dostoevski's statement.

Moslem

apathy and a blunting of emotion

the insult they imply

Yes

He thought they were dangerous.

Vienna

"The truth --- that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. ... The salvation of man is through love and in love."

It can enable a prisoner to transcend his current miserable environment.

That it could transcend his hopeless and meaningless world.

relative

Do not be conspicuous.

numbers

truthfully but without detail

He planned to escape a few times but never actually did.

inferiority complexes

Regardless of environmental conditions, all women and men have a freedom to choose how to think about their situations.

"There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings."

"Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete."

a tree

not knowing how long his term of imprisonment would be

Yes

"It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future --- sub specie aeternitatis."

"Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it."

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."

" Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning of life in a general way. Questions about the meaning of life can never be answered in sweeping statements."

"Wie viel ist aufzulieden!"

"Was Du erlebst, kann keine Macht der Welt Dir rauben." (What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.)

they overlapped

They weren't happy on their first day of freedom.

"The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear any more --- except his God."

"Logotherapy focuses... on the future,... on the meanings to be fulfilled by the patient in the future. (Logotherapy, indeed, is a meaning-centered psychotherapy.)"

"Logos is a Greek word which denotes 'meaning.'"

"... mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become."

mainly in a state of boredom

The specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. "One should not search for an abstract meaning of life... everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it."

"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!"

get the patient to think about the things they are afraid of

depression, aggression, and addiction

?? being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself --- be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself --- by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love --- the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.?

(1) by creating a work or doing a deed (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone
(3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering

Love. ?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. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential for him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.?

No. ?But let me make it perfectly clear that in no way is suffering necessary to find meaning. I only insist that meaning is possible even in spite of suffering --- provided, certainly that the suffering is unavoidable.?

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No

?The existential vacuum which is the mass neurosis of the present time can be described as a private and personal form of nihilism; for nihilism can be defined as the contention that being has no meaning.?

?? man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.?

?In concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.?

??it means that one is, ?, optimistic in spite of the ?tragic triad,? as it is called in logotherapy, a triad which may be circumscribed by: (1) pain; (2) guilt; and (3) death.?

"Of forty consecutive patients applying for therapy at a psychiatric outpatient clinic ? twelve (30 percent) had some major problem involving meaning ??

?? the perception of meaning, as I see it, ? boils down to becoming aware of a possibility against the background of reality or, to express it in plain words, to becoming aware of what can be done about a given situation.

?Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.?