Sublime

the meaning of life always changes, but that it never ceases to be. According to logotherapy, we can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.

Les psychiatres suisses Medard Boss et Ludwig Binswanger mirent au point la « Daseinsanalyse » en s’inspirant des idées de Heidegger ; par la suite, les idées de Sartre eurent plus d’influence aux États-Unis et en Grande-Bretagne. Rollo May et Irvin Yalom travaillèrent dans un cadre ouvertement existentialiste tandis que des idées semblables guidèr

By this method I succeeded somehow in rising above the situation, above the sufferings of the moment, and I observed them as if they were already of the past. Both I and my troubles became the object of an interesting psychoscientific study undertaken by myself.

from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

Victor Frankl, himself a survivor of Auschwitz (and a neurologist and psychologist): “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

I was giving a lecture on the psychology of the concentration camp! All that oppressed me at that moment became objective, seen and described from the remote viewpoint of science. By this method I succeeded somehow in rising above the situation, above the sufferings of the moment, and I observed them as if they were already of the past. Both I and

Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a “secondary rationalization” of instinctual drives.

“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,” could be the guiding motto for all psychotherapeutic and psychohygienic efforts regarding prisoners.