Viktor Frankl's The Human Search For Meaning

In The Human Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl uses his personal experience of the Nazi concentration camp to explain how despite the Nazi’s imposing suffering on him and being imprisoned that they had no control over him. Frankl starts of the piece simply by listing simple desires and comparing them to how a dream of a Nazi camper is nothing compared to his reality when he wakes up. Frankl expresses the idea that you the individual are responsible for how you behave despite the conditions you may be in. By doing so he presents the idea that the only thing that can’t be taken from a individual it there freedom. Frankl not only presents this idea but multiple others including how we must have a active life and when one loses hope is causes a downhill fall including that of death a Nazi camper. By

Frankl’s overall experience of the Nazi concentration was not of horror but of the meaning its taught him despite the hardships he endured.

In my opinion I agree that Frankl presents and gives logical reasoning to all his ideas. I personally agree with some of his ideas and disagree with other. One of the ideas I agree upon is that you are ultimately responsible for you actions and outcomes. I know many things can happen to an individual that might make them feel a certain way or take the path that the general population would take. However despite being something inflicted on you, I believe if you have the right mindset and attitude that you can get through it and make your outcome to whatever you want it to be . The other main idea that I really could relate to that Frankl states is how the lost of courage and or hope really can impact a person. I believe this statement is