Sublime

Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a “secondary rationalization” of instinctual drives.

logotherapy, in comparison with psychoanalysis, is a method less retrospective and less introspective. Logotherapy focuses rather on the future, that is to say, on the meanings to be fulfilled by the patient in his future. (Logotherapy, indeed, is a meaning-centered psychotherapy.)

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

everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any

that is, an optimism in the face of tragedy and in view of the human potential

Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a “secondary rationalization” of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.

It is this spiritual freedom—which cannot be taken away—that makes life meaningful and purposeful.