A person strives for value and meaning, not for pleasure

Drawn from what Viktor Frankl said

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Psychodynamic therapy The tradition descended from psychoanalysis: open-ended sessions working on self-knowledge and the therapy relationship, rather than a manual.

On the topicWhat makes a good life?under our view: Happiness is not a target: it follows from meaning, and chasing it drives it away

What Viktor Frankl actually said

Viktor Frankl c. 1950–1997 Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (1905 to 1997)…

Thus, contrary to the psychoanalytic view, the person, as understood by the existential analysis I have attempted to outline, is not drive-determined but meaning-oriented; from the point of view of existential analysis, the person does not strive for pleasure but for value.

Where this was said

↗Ten Theses about the Person (Salzburg lecture of 1950, as later published; tr. Franz Vesely and David Nolland)viktorfrankl.org

c. 1950–1997

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