Contact Person: Frankl Chen.
His answer was short,“Frankl didn't sabotage any euthanasia.”.
First, Frankl was confident he could expect an audience.
Viktor Frankl's legacy was one of hope and possibility.
Frankl wrote that"The meaning of life is
to give life meaning.".
As Frankl said, suffering with meaning is bearable,
even a source of joy.
Victor Frankl said,“It's the last of all human freedoms,
the ability to choose.”.
Frankl focused on questions about the role of meaning in therapy and psychopathology.
Frankl found that how concentration camp prisoners
imagined their future affected their ability to survive.
Levi was shy and prone to introspection, while Frankl was self-promoting and an extrovert.
I had similar standards in mind when I researched,
and then thought through Frankl efforts.
Thus, when Frankl found himself reflecting upon“the trivial things” of daily
survival he described how:.
Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work.
It is also clear that
Todorov's peculiar take on Holocaust survival is deeply indebted to Frankl.
I channeled my energy into an article that compares Frankl's version of survival with Primo Levi.
In 1942 Frankl, along with his wife and parents were deported to a Nazi concentration camp.
Viktor Frankl(1946/1985) referred to such a painful
and disorienting state of felt meaninglessness and purposelessness as an"existential vacuum.".
After the war, Frankl developed a set of 13 questions as a way
to measure purpose in life.
The Austrian neurologist Viktor Frankl wrote that the cornerstone of good mental health
is having purpose in life.
However, the manuscript was truncated because the chapter on Frankl and
Heidegger, and Frankl in America were left out.
May helped to pioneer the development of existential therapy, and Frankl created a variety of it called logotherapy.
Frankl's level of suffering is such that he has no worries
that he would be understood or even listened too.
Along with basing his contention about moral life in concentration camps on Frankl's testimony,
Todorov cites Frankl throughout the book.
Read a chapter of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, or check out the headline of the daily newspaper.
Viktor Frankl, beautifully said,“Between stimulus and response there is
a space… In that space is our power to choose our response.
When I wrote the article I had no idea that Frankl was only held in depot at Auschwitz
and numbered at Dachau.
The interview ended shortly after that but I left wondering if Frankl hadn't sabotaged euthanasia- why did he say he did?
So I was a bit surprised when Mr. Bloom posted on my Psychology Today
blog criticizing me for not interviewing Viktor Frankl.
As I argue in my book“it seems Frankl had absorbed enough of the‘atmosphere' that even
he recognized his activities were bordering on collaboration.”.