El hombre en busca de sentido es el estremecedor relato en el que Viktor Frankl nos narra su experiencia en los campos de concentración. Durante todos esos años de sufrimiento, sintió en su propio ser lo que significaba una existencia desnuda, absolutamente desprovista de todo, salvo de la existencia misma. Él, que todo lo había perdido, que padeció hambre, frío y brutalidades, que tantas veces estuvo a punto de ser ejecutado, pudo reconocer que, pese a todo, la vida es digna de ser vivida y que la libertad interior y la dignidad humana son indestructibles. En su condición de psiquiatra y prisionero, Frankl reflexiona con palabras de sorprendente esperanza sobre la capacidad humana de trascender las dificultades y descubrir una verdad profunda que nos orienta y da sentido a nuestras vidas. La logoterapia, método psicoterapéutico creado por el propio Frankl, se centra precisamente en el sentido de la existencia y en la búsqueda de ese sentido por parte del hombre, que asume la responsabilidad ante sí mismo, ante los demás y ante la vida. ¿Qué espera la vida de nosotros? El hombre en busca de sentido es mucho más que el testimonio de un psiquiatra sobre los hechos y los acontecimientos vividos en un campo de concentración, es una lección existencial. Traducido a medio centenar de idiomas, se han vendido millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo. Según la Library of Congress de Washington, es uno de los diez libros de mayor influencia en Estados Unidos.

For an example of living all 3 forms of meaning, see this companion post: A Real-Life Meaningful Example of Saying “Yes to Life” (Short Story) 1. Through our Actions (Doing) First of all, our answer can be an active answer, giving an answer through action, answering specific life questions with a deed that we complete or a work that we create.” Viktor E. Frankl, der Begründer der Logotherapie, gibt in diesem Buch einen Querschnitt durch sein gesamtes publizistisches Schaffen auf dem Gebiet der Psychotherapie und ihrer anthropologischen Grundlagen. Die Frage nach dem Sinn des Lebens bleibt ebenso aktuell wie Frankls Antworten darauf. Toda la obra de Viktor E. Frankl está impregnada del profundo conocimiento del ser humano que tenía su autor, y de una visión humanista que nunca lo abandonó y que lo impelía a buscar a toda costa un sentido a la vida del individuo concreto y de la existencia humana. Así, a pesar de los años terribles marcados por su reclusión en campos de concentración nazis, sus reflexiones sobre el sufrimiento y la libertad esencial del ser humano ponen de relieve en todo momento el valor de la vida y nuestra capacidad para sobreponernos a las peores adversidades. How steadfast would a person’s belief in the meaningfulness of life have to be, so as not to be shattered by such skepticism. How unconditionally do we have to believe in the meaning and value of human existence, if this belief is able to take up and bear this skepticism and pessimism?

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Llegará un día en el que serás libre es el fruto de ese trabajo. La presente obra es una selección de los textos y Here are four crucial ideas from Frankl’s re-discovered manuscript. We are responsible for every moment in our lives. Certainly, theburden is heavy, it is difficult not only to recognize responsibility but also to commit to it. To say yes to it, and to life. But there have been people who have said yes despite all difficulties.”

Una obra para aportar valor y confianza a aquellos a los que la lectura de El hombre en busca de sentido With this symphonic prelude, Frankl arrives at the essence of what he discovered about the meaning of life in his confrontation with death — a central fact of being at which a great many of humanity’s deepest seers have arrived via one path or another: from Rilke, who so passionately insisted that “death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love,” to physicist Brian Greene, who so poetically nested our search for meaning into our mortality into the most elemental fact of the universe. Frankl writes: Viktor Frankl nos dejó una conmocionante lección existencial con su relato testimonial de supervivencia en If you’re a Premium Member, don’t miss this one: 🔒 How to Find Meaning in Life with “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl (+ 2 Infographics)These lectures focus on suicide, forced annihilation and concentration camps respectively. With such difficult content I had expected this read to be quite depressing, but there’s hope running through even the darkest of themes. Given the author’s belief that we can find meaning regardless of our circumstances, this hope felt particularly appropriate. Frankl, psychologist and author of Man's Search for Meaning (1959), recounts his life in Austria from his birth in 1905 to the end of World War II. Even as an adolescent, Frankl was drawn to the workings of the human mind. He devoted himself to the study of psychology while a very young man and was mentored by pioneer psychologist Alfred Adler. Frankl, though, eventually rejected key tenets of Adler's teachings, and the two split forever. On his own, Frankl developed logotherapy, a combination of psychology and philosophy, to help people search for values and meaning in a world often devoid of both. But then Frankl, a Jew, came up against Hitler's Anschluss of his homeland and, later, the concentration camps and their attendant horrors, putting Frankl's logotherapy to the supreme test. 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. Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning