Man's Search for Meaning

Anyway ... Yes to life say that a psychologist experienced the concentration camps called a book by psychologist Viktor Frankl, in which he describes his experiences in German concentration camps. The title contains the quote " still say yes to life " from the chorus of the anthem The camp Buchenwald song by Fritz Löhner- Beda.

Content

In the experience report, the Frankl initially wanted to publish anonymous, he describes from the perspective of a Jewish psychologist about his experiences in the concentration camp. It focuses first on the impact of imprisonment in a concentration camp for the prisoners, but also the relationships between prisoners, such as ensuring that some of the prisoners, the guards were brutal act than the actual SS guards.

The central experience in the concentration camp was the experience that it is possible, even under the most inhumane conditions, a purpose in life to see for Frankl. He describes that those prisoners had a better chance to survive, had someone waiting for them. For Frankl himself it was the idea that he will hold in the future lectures on the impact of the camp on the psyche.

The last 50 pages consist of a play of a special kind Socrates, Kant and Spinoza from heaven to the " concentration camp birch forest " and want to help the unsuspecting people. But they can not, the people themselves must come to the meaning of their lives.

Edition

Frankl's book reached high level of awareness. It has been translated into 26 languages ​​. Worldwide, over 12 million copies were sold.

Expenditure

  • Viktor E. Frankl: A psychologist experienced the concentration camps. Publisher of Youth and Culture, Vienna 1946
  • Viktor E. Frankl: Man's Search ... to live say: A psychologist experienced the concentration camps ( paperback edition ). dtv, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-423-10023-0 (28th edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-30142-8 )
  • Viktor E. Frankl: Man's Search ... to live say: A psychologist experienced the concentration camps. Kösel, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-466-36859-4 ( 3rd edition 2012)
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