{"id":675,"date":"2010-08-12T00:02:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T00:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=675"},"modified":"2013-09-14T14:53:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T18:53:30","slug":"viktor-frankl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Frankl"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Written in January 2007)
\nI\u2019ve been reading Viktor Frankl \u201cMan\u2019s Search for Meaning.\u201d<\/a> His description of the experience of prisoners in the Camps is painfully resonant with an abusive childhood \u2014 all the dehumanizing practices \u2014 the brutality, the unfairness, the unpredictability, the refusal to acknowledge the prisoner as human.\u00a0 Reminds me of that hideous book mother had about how a child\u2019s will must be broken.\u00a0 Horrifying.\u00a0 But so far I\u2019ve found his comments about having to find meaning in the suffering helpful.\u00a0 In<\/em> the suffering not in denial of it.\u00a0 Some people found meaning in their unfinished work, or a person they loved \u2014 and this helped them hold on.\u00a0 Interestingly, one thing that helped Frankl was imagining the work he would do describing the psychological effects of experience in the camps.\u00a0 But really, the only one that works for me is the understanding that by bearing my suffering with dignity I am helping bear the suffering of the world.<\/p>\n

Viktor Frankl: \u201cAs each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the question of the meaning of life may actually be reversed.\u00a0 Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he<\/em> who is asked.\u00a0 In a word each man is questioned by life, and he can only answer to life by answering for<\/em> his life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.\u00a0 Thus logotherapy sees in responsibleness the very essence of human existence.\u201d p109
\nOR: \u201cAs each situation in life represents a challenge to me and presents a problem for me to solve, the question of the meaning of life may actually be reversed.\u00a0 Ultimately, I should not ask what the meaning of my life is, but rather I must recognize that it is me<\/em> who is asked.\u00a0 In a word each of us is questioned by life, and we can only answer to life by answering for<\/em> our lives; to life I can only respond by being responsible.\u00a0 Thus logotherapy sees in responsibleness the very essence of human existence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Written in January 2007) I\u2019ve been reading Viktor Frankl \u201cMan\u2019s Search for Meaning.\u201d His description of the experience of prisoners in the Camps is painfully resonant with an abusive childhood \u2014 all the dehumanizing practices \u2014 the brutality, the unfairness, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}