Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy by Viktor E. Frankl
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MAN'S SEARCH FOR · FACT
The Cattle Car Transport
In October 1944, Viktor Frankl was deported with fifteen hundred prisoners toward Auschwitz-Birkenau. Guards packed roughly eighty prisoners into each sealed wooden freight car, with almost no air, water, or room to move, for the entire journey across Central Europe.
Ten of its 293 cards, from the same pack file the app reads.
6 lessons.
Each lesson has a study guide to read and objectives you can test yourself on. Its cards and games show up in your feed.
- 01
Arrival & The Psychology of Camp Admission
Arrival at Auschwitz, The Finger Game & Delusion of Reprieve · The Stripping of Identity, Cold Curiosity & The Lost Manuscript
- 02
Entrenchment & Inner Survival in the Camps
Emotional Numbness, Apathy, and Psychological Defense · Contemplation of the Beloved, Inner Sanctuary, Art and Nature
- 03
Destiny, Choice, and the Psychology of Liberation
The Last Human Freedom, Fate, and Moral Decision-Making · Liberation, Depersonalization, and Re-entering the World
- 04
Foundations of Logotherapy & The Will to Meaning
The Will to Meaning vs. Pleasure and Power, Noögenic Neuroses · Noö-Dynamics, The Existential Vacuum, and Sunday Neurosis
- 05
The Three Avenues of Meaning & Attitudinal Values
Creative and Experiential Values: Creation, Beauty, and Love · Attitudinal Values: The Meaning of Suffering and Dignity
- 06
Clinical Techniques, Tragic Optimism & Responsibility
Clinical Practice: Paradoxical Intention and Dereflection · The Tragic Triad, Tragic Optimism, and the Statue of Responsibility
What you'll be able to do 12 objectives, from the pack's lessons
- Understand the psychological shock of camp admission, the delusion of reprieve, and the mechanics of the SS selection process.
- Explain the total stripping of personal identity, the loss of Frankl's manuscript, and cold curiosity as an emotional defense.
- Analyze Phase 2 camp psychology: emotional blunting, primal regression to survival, and medical service in the typhus ward.
- Explain how love, contemplation of the beloved, spiritual interior life, and humor preserved the human soul amidst camp squalor.
- Master the principle of the last human freedom—choosing one's attitude—and the moral classification into decent and indecent men.
- Analyze Phase 3 psychology: depersonalization upon liberation, decompression risks, grieving familial loss, and spiritual rebirth.
- Distinguish the Will to Meaning from Freud's Will to Pleasure and Adler's Will to Power, and define noögenic neuroses.
- Explain noö-dynamics, the existential vacuum, Sunday neurosis, and societal pathologies of conformism and totalitarianism.
- Apply the Categorical Imperative of Logotherapy and explain creative values (work) and experiential values (love/art).
- Master attitudinal values: discovering meaning in unavoidable suffering, transforming tragedy into human achievement, and dignity.
- Master clinical logotherapy techniques: Paradoxical Intention for anticipatory anxiety and Dereflection for hyper-reflection.
- Explain the Tragic Triad (Pain, Guilt, Death), Tragic Optimism, the Psychiatric Credo, and the Statue of Responsibility.
- Cards
- 293
- Lessons
- 6
- Version
- 1.0.4
- Language
- English
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