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FOREWORD
VIKTOR FRANKL’S Man’s
Search for Meaning is one of the great books of our time.
Typically, if a book has one passage, one idea with the power to change a
person’s life, that alone justices reading it, rereading it, and ending
room for it on one’s shelves. This book has several such
passages.
It is first
of all a book about survival. Like so many German and East European Jews
who thought themselves secure in the 1930s,
Frankl was cast
into the Nazi network of concentration and extermination
camps. Miraculously, he survived, in the biblical phrase “a brand
plucked from the are.” But his account in
this book
is less about his
travails, what he suffered and lost, than it is
about the sources of his
strength to survive. Several times in the course of the book, Frankl
approvingly quotes the words of Nietzsche: “He who has a Why to live
for can bear almost any How.” He describes poignantly those
prisoners who gave up on life, who had lost all hope for a future
and were inevitably the first to die. They died
less from lack of food
or medicine than from lack of hope, lack of something to live
for. By contrast, Frankl kept himself alive and kept hope alive by
summoning up thoughts of his wife and the prospect of seeing her again,
and by dreaming at one point of lecturing after the war about the
psychological lessons to be learned from the Auschwitz experience.
Clearly, many prisoners who desperately wanted to live did die, some from
disease, some in the crematoria. But Frankl’s concern is less
with the question of why most died than it is with the question of why
anyone at all survived.
Terrible as it
was, his experience in Auschwitz reinforced what was already one of his
key ideas: 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. The greatest task for any person is to nd
meaning in his or her life. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in
work (doing something signiacant), in love (caring
for another person), and in courage
during diurcult
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