This striving to find a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man. Logos is a Greek word which denotes “meaning.” Logotherapy, or, as it has been called by some authors, “The Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy,” focuses on the meaning of human existence as well as on man’s search for such a meaning. (Logotherapy, indeed, is a meaning-centered psychotherapy). Hence logotherapy, whichįocuses rather on the future, that is to say, on the meanings to be fulfilled by the patient in his future. Or rather, he thinks that it is unhealthy and unhelpful. I, in my black-turtleneck and Gauloise phase (everyone has one), used to think that was cool. Sartre and the other existentialists believed that we have to accept the meaninglessness of our existence. He is therefore, as he also says in this video, the anti-Sartre. In other words, if people suffer but see meaning in their life, and even in their suffering, they do not despair, as he himself did not despair when he was in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. So Viktor Frankl says in the video above, summarizing his theory of logotherapy, which I’ve read at greater length in his book Man’s Search for Meaning.
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