Man's Search for Meaning -

Viktor E. Frankl

Beacon Press

2006

188 páginas

6h 16m

ISBN-13: 9780807014288

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful. At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey for the Library of Congress that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America.

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Auschwitz e Logoterapia

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O conteúdo deste livro é significativo em diversas perspectivas. Historicamente, podemos tirar proveito de uma descrição detalhada do Holocausto a partir da experiência de um sobrevivente. Com lentes sociológicas, da análise precisa do comportamento. Já em psicologia, da introdução a Logoterapia. E nos olhos da filosofia - meu favorito -, do estudo do sentido da vida.

Aliás, mesmo dividindo em áreas, saiba que o argumento de Viktor Frankl é tão bem desenvolvido que a mescla dos ramos do conhecimento passa despercebida. Uma unidade que certamente agregará na sua visão de mundo.

Por fim, recomendo. Outrossim, considero necessário. Como Nietzsche afirmou - e Viktor citou várias vezes: "He who has a Why to live for can bear with almost any How". Assim, Man's Search for Meaning - ao meu ver - é um ótimo norte para identificar o seu Why.
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Qual o seu sentido da vida?

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"So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!"