MANS SEARCH FOR MEANING

Mans Search for Meaning

Mans Search for Meaning

Introduction

Self-knowledge is the knowledge that a person acquires upon itself, in terms of psychological or spiritual, during his life on the occasion of his experiences.

Knowing oneself is a particular order of knowledge to the extent where, in the same household, the knower and the object of knowledge are combined. The central difficulty makes it imperative for demanding research of objectivity so that knowledge must be of some consequence.

Internationally renowned psychiatrist, Viktor E. Frankl, endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps. During, and partly because of, his suffering, Dr. Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as Logotherapy. At the core of his theory was that man is the primary motivational force in search for meaning.

Man's Search for Meaning is more than a story of Viktor E. Frankl's triumph. It is a remarkable blend of science and humanism and it introduced the most significant psychological movement of our day.

Discussion

As a rule, humans relatively have great knowledge, for example, about their dignity and development abilities. However, he is much less aware of the negative qualities, for example, weaknesses in oneself. Such knowledge is usually displaced from the sphere of human consciousness and stored in the subconscious, where neither he nor the people around him have access. They may be known only through the use of special psychoanalytic procedures or tests. Knowledge about oneself a person can get from various sources.

The book Man's Search for Meaning is based on personal experiences that millions of people have suffered time and again. It is the story of a concentration camp told by a survivor. In "Man's Search for Meaning, Frankl created his own suffering with the aim of helping others to overcome obstacles with dignity and hope, and show, in this way, that life is worth living beyond the circumstances. Thus, the author reveals how, through having found meaning in his life, he could survive in that environment where he experienced hunger, cold and suffered countless atrocities committed by Nazi guards. In short, Frankl argues that this inability to discover the meaning of our existence is what leads men to lose their balance inside and, therefore, to despair.

Man's Search for Meaning of life is the testimony of an eyewitness and victim during the Holocaust. It helps us learn about the scope of human freedom to transcend the most terrible difficulties. During his captivity Frankl found that those prisoners who did not see any meaning in their lives because they had lost faith in the future, were the ones who truly were doomed to mental and physical annihilation, and that denying freedom, is delivered to destination abandoning the struggle for survival. “Man is able to snatch all” says Frankl “except the last of human freedoms, the choice of personal attitude to a set of circumstances to determine their own path.”

There is a fundamental commonality between all human beings: the spiritual dimension, which tends by nature to seek ever outside itself, a reason ...