Sublime

VIKTOR E. FRANKL was PROFESSOR OF NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY at the University of Vienna and, for 25 years, head of the Vienna Neurological Policlinic. The Logotherapy/Existential Analysis founded by him is also known as the Third Viennese Direction of Psychotherapy. He held visiting professorships at Harvard University, Stanford, Dallas and Pittsbur

It is one of the basic tenets of logotherapy that man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. That is why man is even ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has a meaning.

man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. That is why man is even ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has a meaning.