02 Search for the Meaning of Life & Animism

Viktor Frankl

Experienced life in Nazi Concentration Camps

1. Shock

2. Apathy

3. The Psychology After Liberation

The 3 major phases in a search for the meaning of life

Shock

Unprepared for the situation

Apathy

Blunting of emotions. Not caring anymore.

The Psychology After Liberation

Everything seems unreal or unlikely like a dream

Logotherapy

The pursuit of human existence

Logotherapy

Finding meaning in one’s life as a primary motivational force

1. Doing a deed

2. Experiencing value

3. Suffering

The 3 kinds of logotherapy

Doing a deed

Achievements and accomplishments

Experiencing value

loving someone and being loved

Experiencing value

Being fully aware of another’s essence

love

the salvation of man

love

the only way to grasp a human being in their innermost core.

Suffering

encountering the central theme of existentialism.

Nietzche

Was the one to say “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

Animism

The belief that creatures, objects, and places possess certain spirits

Animism

The belief that things and places are alive and are supernatural