The next reading consist of a summary about that I have learned in this course, I mean join the grammar structure with another ideas that I’ve learned to review the knowledge.
For this summary, I’d like to use the Frankl’s ideas from his book Man’s Search for meaning. To Frankl his ideas are support on the existentialism in that talk about the essence of self doesn’t define his existence. These words are so complicated to understand that it is better to define in what is Frankl’s thesis.
🔖 To start and share who was Viktor Frankl, we have to start in the begging.
Viktor Frankl born in Vienna, Austria on March 26, 1905.
Frankl was a medicine student from his early years, and here he decided to continue his major studies in psychiatry area where he was influenced by philosophers as Schopenhauer, Ostwald, Fechner among others. In a few words, by existentialism philosophers.
This carried to Frankl to send a letter to the same Freud, in order to understand how psychoanalysis works. However, Freud’s thought wasn’t enough to Frankl, that he would rather continue with Adler school than Freud school (Adler school was the second Vienna psychotherapy school, after the first one; Freud school). Nevertheless, Frankl wasn’t agreed to accept the Adler school, except for some philosophers that he was reading, Heidegger, Jaspers and Scheler. It is prepared to start working with his own theory. The theory that within some years it could be well-known as Logotherapy, the third Vienna psychotherapy school. But before these years, Frankl happened by one of the worst human moments of History.
After Frankl finished his studies, he was working as Psychiatrist in different health places where he attended patients or group of women with mental disorders, To Frankl these experiences help himself to work and understand the origin of some of these kinds of neuroses (In basic terms, a neurosis is a mental disorder, not means that a neurosis always is a mental ill). Little time after, the politic situation in his country start to be complicated for the Nazis, and he and his family was carry to a different concentration camps for their Jewish origin.
In this time, is where this book: Man’s search for meaning starts. In this text Frankl didn’t tell the horrible things that the Nazis made to the Jewish town, actually, Frankl as a Psychiatrist decided to analysis how live in a concentration camp affects to the human spirit or in what the human belief; so as to what is the deep reason for human to live and how changes living as a prisioner without any liberty.
Frankl, starts the books tell how people fall such a despair that finished that some people decided to take their own life, Frankl didn’t blame them, he understood that option is another way to finish with their suffering. However, Frankl pointed out, that in these kinds of circumstances is sometimes where people could be stronger spirituality. During the whole book, Frankl will quote to Nietzsche.
Those who have a why to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
What to mean this quote to Frankl? To Frankl, It means, that those people could give a meaning for their suffering, they are stronger, because they understand their circumstances, thus they accept those, and quoted the Frankl words they discover their meaning, This meaning is different to anyone, and it could be changed in the time, but that considered as your own meaning. For instance, one of Frankl’s meaning was the love for his wife, even when he got out from the concentration camp all his life was death. But he understood that, and he gave a meaning about his suffering.
We could understand that in those situations Frankl must have lived great suffering, since, we talked one of the sad humanity history. Amazingly, Frankl found his own meaning. He mean to finish his work that is still unfinished for these war times, where he was a prsioner. And he didn’t let to abandon these places. The Jewish People allowed to have any liberty, they were stripped for any liberty, they lost their names, their lifes, their houses, they have lost their identity, the thing we became in humans. They could have forgotten who were themselves. The Jewish people have already been nothing. Even with this such great hurt, Frankl thought that we have to say yes to life.
Frankl thoughts, consist to find our own meaning, and understand that meaning could change, and it is different to one human to another one. This isn’t easy, is a hurt path, but a better option is reading.
These were some of the rules that I’ve just learned with this course and I decided to join all with other ideas that I’ve been learning, in this case the main idea from the book Man’s search for meaning. I recommend this book a lot. The Frankl’s ideas are very deep. By the way I’m trying to make this texts where I combined many things as form to memorize and reinforce the knowledge, I hope that it could be useful to someone else. And if you have feedback. Tell me 😉 All the feedback is always welcome. 📝😃 If you want to check the note in notion, click here.
