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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
... See moreAude de Saint-Loup • Au café existentialiste : La liberté l être & le cocktail à l abricot (French Edition)
Frankl offers readers who are searching for answers to life’s dilemmas a critical mandate: he does not tell people what to do, but why they must do it.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub specie aeternitatis.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
Dr. frankl, author-psychiatrist, sometimes asks his patients who suffer from a multitude of torments great and small, “Why do you not commit suicide?” From their answers he can often find the guide-line for his psychotherapy: in one life there is love for one’s children to tie to; in another life, a talent to be used; in a third, perhaps only
... See moreViktor E Frankl • Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
His observations led Frankl to develop the theory of logotherapy in his book, Man’s Search for Meaning. Unlike previous theories of motivation, like Freud’s Will to Pleasure or Nietzsche’s Will to Power, Frankl saw that the fundamental thing people sought was meaning. There was no power or pleasure to be had in a concentration camp. There was,
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“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,”
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
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Jungian analyst Edward Whitmont wrote: “The one thing we can under no circumstance tolerate is lack of meaning. Everything, even death and destruction, can be faced so long as it has meaning. Even in the midst of plenty and fullness the lack of an inner sense of meaning is unbearable.”19 Victor Frankl described how, among his fellow Holocaust
... See moreJoanna LaPrade • Forged in Darkness: The Many Paths of Personal Transformation
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.