Sublime

Après des mois d’étude et de réflexion, je suis parvenu à la conclusion que c’est sur la confrontation de l’homme avec la mort que devait principalement porter l’approche existentielle de la psychothérapie ; et ce, en raison, croyais-je, de l’universalité et de l’intensité de notre peur de la mort. Maintenant, à la réflexion, je ne peux exclure la

(Logotherapy, indeed, is a meaning-centered psychotherapy.)

I said that each of us had to ask himself what irreplaceable losses he had suffered up to then. I speculated that for most of them these losses had really been few. Whoever was still alive had reason for hope. Health, family, happiness, professional abilities, fortune, position in society—all these were things that could be achieved again or restor

everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl

As we said before, any attempt to restore a man’s inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal. Nietzsche’s words, “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,”