What Viktor Frankl thinks about Europe
Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (1905 to 1997) and Holocaust survivor who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that treats the search for meaning as the central human motivation.
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2 dated positions, c. 1962–1992 to c. 1946–1992, in their own words. Our reading of what Viktor Frankl has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingEven in a concentration camp a person can decide what becomes of them mentally and spiritually
Their wordsFundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him - mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
↗Man's Search for Meaning (Beacon Press, 2006 edition; Part One tr. Ilse Lasch)books.google.com All 21 from this book
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Our readingThe human being invented the gas chambers and is also the being who entered them upright, praying
Their wordsAfter all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
↗Man's Search for Meaning (Beacon Press, 2006 edition; Part One tr. Ilse Lasch)books.google.com All 21 from this book