Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
ISBN: 9781846043062
Publication Date: 1 September 2011

An inspirational exploration of the psychology that enabled Viktor Frankl, bestselling author of Man's Search for Meaning, to survive the Holocaust

Viktor Frankl is known to millions of readers as the author of Man's Search for Meaning, his harrowing Holocaust memoir. In this book, he goes more deeply into the ways of thinking that enabled him to survive imprisonment in a concentration camp and to find meaning in life in spite of all the odds. Here, he expands upon his groundbreaking ideas and searches for answers about life, death, faith and suffering. Believing that there is much more to our existence than meets the eye, he says: 'No one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.'

In Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning, Frankl explores our sometimes unconscious desire for inspiration or revelation. He explains how we can create meaning for ourselves and, ultimately, he reveals how life has more to offer us than we could ever imagine.

About the Author

Viktor Emil Frankl was born in Vienna in 1905. He was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School and author of 32 books. His wife, father, mother and brother all died in Nazi concentration camps, only he and his sister survived but he never lost the qualities of compassion, loyalty, undaunted spirit and thirst for life (earning his pilot's licence aged 67).