Man's Search for Meaning
A psychiatrist survives the camps and asks what allows a human being to keep going.
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Le mot de POP LIVRE
Under 200 pages, and the plainest possible language for the hardest possible subject. Frankl never asks for pity and never offers easy comfort — which is exactly why so many readers return to it.
Présentation
Viktor Frankl was a Viennese psychiatrist when he was deported in 1942; he survived four camps, including Auschwitz, and lost his wife, his parents and his brother. First published in German in 1946, his book has two parts. The first is a sober account of camp life observed with a clinician's eye — what happens to people over months, why some hold on. The second sets out logotherapy, the school of psychotherapy he founded, built on a single claim: that the primary human drive is not pleasure or power but the search for meaning, and that meaning remains available even when everything else has been taken away. It has been read by tens of millions of people, in many languages, ever since.