Topic > man's search for meaning - 1180

When World War II broke out, the Jewish population suffered a huge loss and was treated with injustice and cruelty by the Nazis through examples in the book Man's Search for Meaning. Victor Frankl records his experiences and observations during his time as a prisoner in Auschwitz during the war. Before imprisonment he spent his free time as an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, Austria, and was able to apply his analytical thought processes to life in the concentration camp. As a psychological analyst, Frankl describes through the daily lives of inmates how they discover a sense of the meaning of life and what they aspire to live for, while being mistreated, unfairly punished, and served with little or no food from day to day. day. It highlights three psychological stages characterized by shock, apathy, and the inability to maintain a normal life after release from the camp. These themes recur throughout the book, which the inmates experience when they are first incarcerated, as they adapt as prisoners, and as they are released from prison. It also highlights the need for hope, to provide a purpose to continue fighting for one's life, even if they were stripped naked and treated inferior to the human race. Furthermore, the Capos and SS guards, who were part of Hitler's secret society, tormented many of the wrongly convicted. Although many suffered violent deaths due to gas chambers, frostbite, starvation, etc., many others suffered internally from losing the self-confidence to continue living. Frankl describes, on page twenty-six, the horrors he faced when he encountered reports of the gas chambers disguised as public toilets. How unjustly incarcerated f...... middle of paper ...... individuals were treated in Nazi concentration camps. He writes to avoid any personal prejudice, since he himself was a prisoner and emphasizes the idea that man has the ability to determine what will become of his life, since he himself was able to apply this thought by living three years in captivity . His idea of ​​finding meaning in life becomes a key factor for survival, which ultimately managed to help him and others through his teachings, to come out of the camps alive with a positive attitude. The need for hope gave him a purpose to keep fighting, even as others were struck by the thought of suicide. Although Victor E. Frankl faced many difficulties and challenges during his imprisonment and in the days following his release, he comes to the definitive conclusion that life will never cease to have meaning, even in the cruelest conditions.