Man’s Search for Meaning (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Viktor Emil Frankl
- First Published: 1946
- Type of Work: Psychology/memoir
- Time of Work: 1942-1945
- Setting: Auschwitz, Dachau, and other Nazi concentration camps
- Principal Characters: Victor Frankl
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Philosophy, Psychology
- Subjects: Suffering, Prisoners, World War II, Human behavior, Life and death, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts, Concentration camps
Form and Content
At the outbreak of World War II Victor Frankl was director of therapy in a large mental hospital in Vienna and the organizer of a group of successful youth guidance centers. Frankl, along with his family and many other doctors, was sent to a concentration camp. He carried with him the manuscript for his first book, which was taken from him and destroyed at Auschwitz. Ironically, the desire to reconstruct and rewrite that volume on psychotherapy helped him endure three harrowing years of prison life. For Frankl, the situation confirmed Friedrich Nietzsche’s...
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