Sublime

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

Victor Frankl suggests that there are three central values in life—the experiential, or that which happens to us; the creative, or that which we bring into existence; and the attitudinal, or our response in difficult circumstances such as terminal illness.

He sought to help his patients find a way to make their lives meaningful even in the face of depression or mental illness.

An incurably psychotic individual may lose his usefulness but yet retain the dignity of a human being.

It is one of the basic tenets of logotherapy that man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. That is why man is even ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has a meaning.

under this influence the personal ego finally suffered a loss of values. If the man in the concentration camp did not struggle against this in a last effort to save his self-respect, he lost the feeling of being an individual, a being with a mind, with inner freedom and personal value. He thought of himself then as only a part of an enormous mass

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