Mans Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl :: Papers

Mans Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklOn the average, only those prisoners could deem alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all hesitate in their fight forexistence they were prepared to use every means, echt and otherwise, even brutal force, theft, and betrayal of their friends, in order tosave themselves. We who go for come back, by the aid of many a(prenominal) a(prenominal) lucky chances or miracles - whatsoever one may choose to call them - weknow the best of us did not return. (p. 7) The Three Phases of the Inmates Mental Reactions to Camp Life a) the period spare-time activity his admission Symptom = shock Delusion of reprieve The condemned man, immediately forwards his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very finally moment. We, too, clung to the shreds of hope and believed to the last moment that it would not be so bad. (p. 14) 1) a grim sense of humor 2) cold curiosity 3) thoughts of suicide An vicarious re action to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. (p. 30) b) The period when he is head entrenched in camp routine a) Relative apathy, a miscellanea of emotional death Disgust, horror and pity were emotions one could not rattling feel anymore. The sufferers, the dying and the dead, became such commonplace sights to him after a fewer weeks of camp life that they could not move him anymore. (p. 33) ...the prisoner soon surrounded himself with a very necessary protective shell. (p. 35). b) Extreme hunger from malnourishment & preoccupation with food c) Absence of sexual urge d) Cultural hibernation, with the twain exceptions politics and religion In spite of all the enforced fleshly and mental primitiveness of life in a concentration camp, it was realistic for spiritual life to deepen. Sensitive people who were used to a ample intellectual life may have suffered much pain (they were ofttimes of a delicate constitution), but the damage to their inner selves was less. They we re able to draw from their terrible surroundings to a life of inner riches and spiritual freedom. (p. 56). On love piece of music thinking on his wife while marching ...for the first time in my life I adage the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the