Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

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MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANINGbeauty - by experiencing nature and culture or, lastbut not least, by experiencing another human being inhis very uniqueness - by loving him.THE MEANING OF LOVELove is the only way to grasp another human beingin the innermost core of his personality. No one canbecome fully aware of the very essence of anotherhuman being unless he loves him. By his love he isenabled to see the essential traits and features in thebeloved person; and even more, he sees that which ispotential in him, which is not yet actualized but yetought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, theloving person enables the beloved person to actualizethese potentialities. By making him aware of what hecan be and of what he should become, he makes thesepotentialities come true.In logotherapy, love is not interpreted as a mereepiphenomenon 3 of sexual drives and instincts in thesense of a so-called sublimation. Love is as primary aphenomenon as sex. Normally, sex is a mode ofexpression for love. Sex is justified, even sanctified, assoon as, but only as long as, it is a vehicle of love.Thus love is not understood as a mere side-effect ofsex; rather, sex is a way of expressing the experienceof that ultimate togetherness which is called love.The third way of finding a meaning in life is bysuffering.3 A phenomenon that occurs as the result of a primary phenomenon.134
LOGOTHERAPY IN A NUTSHELLTHE MEANING OF SUFFERINGWe must never forget that we may also find meaningin life even when confronted with a hopeless situation,when facing a fate that cannot be changed. <strong>For</strong> whatthen matters is to bear witness to the uniquely humanpotential at its best, which is to transform a personaltragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament intoa human achievement. When we are no longer able tochange a situation - just think of an incurable diseasesuch as inoperable cancer - we are challenged tochange ourselves.Let me cite a clear-cut example: Once, an elderlygeneral practitioner consulted me because of his severedepression. He could not overcome the loss of hiswife who had died two years before and whom he hadloved above all else. Now, how could I help him?What should I tell him? Well, I refrained from tellinghim anything but instead confronted him with thequestion, "What would have happened, Doctor, if youhad died first, and your wife would have had to surviveyou?" "Oh," he said, "for her this would have beenterrible; how she would have suffered!" Whereupon Ireplied, "You see, Doctor, such a suffering has beenspared her, and it was you who have spared her thissuffering - to be sure, at the price that now you have tosurvive and mourn her." He said no word but shookmy hand and calmly left my office. In some way,suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds ameaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.Of course, this was no therapy in the proper sensesince, first, his despair was no disease; and second, I135
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ContentsPreface by Gordon W. Allpor
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ABOUT THE AUTHORVIKTOR E. FRANKL is
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