The World War II brought about the incarceration of Jews and people who were taught to be associated with them. Even some people who were thought to be sympathizers also suffered similar fate. One of such people was Viktor Emil Frank, at the time of his incarceration, he was the director of therapy in a mental facility and had even run some successful youth programs. After his arrest, he was sent to a concentration camp together with his family and that is where he got the content of the book from. This book was first published in German and the modern translation of the book in English is; MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING. The book details the horror of life in the Auschwitz and Dachau Nazi camp. The salient them in his book is perhaps the notion …show more content…
The first part is basically asking the question about the everyday prison in a concentration camp sees things happening in his or her view. It is further divided into three main sections, each dealing with a stage of the incarceration. It starts with the prisoner’s reaction to the incarceration itself i.e. the shock of being in a concentration camp which is then followed by the adjustment and survival phase of trying to live and cope within the camp and third and lastly, the adjustment and reintegration into society after being liberated from the …show more content…
Frankl’s book talks about the concept of logotheraphy. Viktor E. Frankl explained that he adopted the term ‘logotherapy’ from the Greek word ‘Logos’ which denotes ‘Meaning’. The term widely known by some authors as "The Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy," focuses on the meaning of human existence as well as on man 's search for such a meaning which is his primary motivational force. Frankl further divided the description of the logotheraphy concept into 1. ‘Will to meaning’ thus Man 's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives, 2. ‘Existential frustration’ which he described in three different means thus; i) existence itself describing specifically human mode of being, ii) Meaning of existence and iii) the strive to find a concrete meaning in personal existence. He also explained that Existential frustration can also result in