The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

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  1. Freud’s self-interpretation of psychoanalysisfrom

    Like Columbus seeking India and finding a new continent, Freud achieved something other than the mechanistic theory he believed in.

  2. human autonomy and influencefrom

    For Viktor Frankl, no longer told by instinct or tradition what to do, man often wants what others do or does what others want.

  3. human capacity for self-detachmentfrom

    Viktor Frankl finds the uniquely human capacity for self-detachment in two places: heroism, as in the concentration camps, and humor.

  4. Man's Search for Meaning (1946)from

    Human freedom is no freedom from conditions but freedom to take a stand on whatever conditions confront us, Viktor Frankl argues.

  5. transcendence, love and consciencefrom

    For Viktor Frankl, love and conscience are the most striking forms of self-transcendence, toward another person or toward meaning.