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This is a 4 page paper that provides an overview of Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning". Existential themes therein are explored. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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category so far and deserves to be in the pantheon of Greatest books ever written because not only did Frankl narrate his every day ordeal that he endured for three
years in four different concentration camps; he also wrote about the psychological torment of the prisoners and the psychological stages the prisoners underwent as a result of trauma, and how
he attained redemption by finding meaning to his ordeal through logo therapy. This encompasses realizing that the value of suffering is meaningful when it is inevitable.
This paragraph helps the student begin to explore the major themes that emerge in the book. The authors treatment of meaning is, as the title suggests,
central to the thematic progression of the text. The work opens with a psychological examination of Frankl himself as well as many other persons who were kept prisoner in Nazi
concentration camps during the second world war. In the midst of this analysis, Frankl asserts that the prisoners all underwent a predictable and patterned psychological transformation. Firstly, the prisoner experiences
shock and disbelief at the horrible circumstances to which theyve been subjected; there is a tendency to deny the reality of their circumstances and wonder "how such a thing could
happen" (Frankl, 2006). Nextly, the prisoners would descend into a state of apathy where they would reject previously held values because of the extent to which those values had become
incompatible with their present reality; instead of worrying about things that might have previously concerned them such as compassion, they would tend to only care about things that were directly
relevant to maximizing their survival, even at the expense of others (Frankl, 2006). Lastly, and most importantly, there was a tendency to enter a state of depersonalization, wherein one would
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