Yes To Life In Spite of Everything

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The third lecture was the one that I found most insightful. Building on the two previous lectures, Frankl discusses his thoughts on the “psychological reactions of the camp prisoners to life in the camp.” Learning how this lecture specifically related to his own ability to find meaning was inspirational. Actions: meaningful acts that outlive us, whether that is in creating art, invention or in social acts of good. Just months after his liberation from Auschwitz renowned psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl delivered a series of talks revealing the foundations of his life-affirming philosophy. The psychologist, who would soon become world famous, explained his central thoughts on meaning, resilience and his conviction that every crisis contains opportunity.

Viktor Frankl, like anyone who endured the atrocities of the Holocaust, is someone I don’t have the vocabulary to describe. I’m in awe of the resilience and oftentimes almost unfathomable positivity of anyone who has lived through experiences I can’t even imagine. What’s even more extraordinary is that the lectures Frankl gave, which are the basis of this book, were presented only nine months after his liberation from his final concentration camp. SS седи във влака срещу евреин. Евреинът вади една херинга и я захапва, а после отново я увива и я прибира.Viktor Frankl gives us the gift of looking at everything in life as an opportunity' Edith Eger, bestselling author of The Choice What blows my mind is that everything he has said & written referring to the holocaust is true even today. The below is true for all wars, all civil unrests, all religious battles, all oppressions & even the recent pandemic - even after 75+ years..... its amazing!!! Published here for the very first time in English, Frankl's words resonate as strongly today as they did in 1946. Despite the unspeakable horrors in the camp, Frankl learnt from his fellow inmates that it is always possible to say ‘yes to life’ – a profound and timeless lesson for us all. Es kommt nie und nimmer darauf an, was wir vom Leben zu erwarten haben, viel mehr lediglich darauf: was das Leben von uns erwartet.“

This meaning, Frankl asserts, can come through “our actions, through loving, and through suffering.” Meaning doesn’t only come from work. Illness, physical or mental, doesn’t necessarily equal loss of meaning. Suffering can be either meaningful or meaningless.Three lectures from 1946 on the 'meaning' of life. If you've read Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning you will recognise a lot of what you're reading here, but it's compressed, and the main goal is different.

Mas se na realidade Frankl parte deste contexto particular do pós guerra para nos propor algo mais na nossa procura incessante de um sentido para a nossa vida. E nós leitores fazemos esse caminho essa busca a partir da obra de Frankl. Pessoalmente fiquei preso no modo como o livro aparentemente me influenciou… Suffering – this provides meaning to our lives through lived experience and should be embraced, not avoided. This small book is a collection of three lectures that Victor Frankl delivered in 1946, after his liberation from four years spent in various concentration camps. Some of the early text read the way some university philosophy lectures I’ve attended felt, where I was anxious for the lecturer to get to the point, but these sections were the groundwork for what was to come. Frankl gives examples of patients he treated and people he encountered in concentration camps, and these provided the answers to ‘how does this theory apply to real life?’, which is something I always seek. Frankl, a psychotherapist by profession, was interned in 1941, along with his parents and pregnant wife. Separated from his loved ones, he cherished the hope that the family would be re-united one day, and that hope sustained him. Upon his liberation, he discovered that they had all perished. Hope postponed is destructive, he concludes, and is glad he held on to his dreams for life on the outside until the war ended.While Frankl specifically says that no one’s suffering can be compared to anyone else’s I still find it difficult to think of any of my experiences, not matter how painful they are for me, to be comparable to those who have been subjected to concentration camps. After reading this book part of me wants to admonish myself for having a whinge about any problem I face. However, the overwhelming takeaway for me is if people like Viktor experienced what they did and still managed to find hope and meaning, then it is always possible for me, no matter what comes my way, to change my perspective. To say yes to life is not only meaningful under all circumstances - because life itself is - but it is also possible under all circumstances. Content warnings include death by suicide, descriptions of concentration camp experiences, euthanasia, mental illness and suicidal ideation. Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The psychiatrist, who would soon become world famous, explained his central thoughts on meaning, resilience, and the importance of embracing life even in the face of great adversity. The book has a very good intro, written in the modern time by Daniel Goleman. Goleman recounts Frankl's story, as well as outlines the scope of the material presented here. Goleman writes this of the source material: Certainly, our life, in terms of the biological, the physical, is transitory in nature. Nothing of it survives—and yet how much remains! What remains of it, what will remain of us, what can outlast us, is what we have achieved during our existence that continues to have an effect, transcending us and extending beyond us. The effectiveness of our life becomes incorporeal and in that way it resembles radium, whose physical form is also, during the course of its “lifetime” (and radioactive materials are known to have a limited lifetime) increasingly converted into radiation energy, never to return to materiality. What we “radiate” into the world, the “waves” that emanate from our being, that is what will remain of us when our being itself has long since passed away..." Author Viktor Emil Frankl M.D., Ph.D., was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of Existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School" of psychotherapy. Frankl lost his pregnant wife, his mother, father, and brother to the Nazi concentration camps of WW2.