Mitchell Loughlin’s Reviews > Man's Search for Meaning > Status Update

From this one may see that there’s no reason to pity old people instead of young people should envy them. It is true that the old have no opportunities no possibilities in the future, but they have more than that instead of possibilities in the future they have realities in the past. the potential realities that they have actualized the meaning of fulfilled the values they have realized

If an ape was being used to develop a polio vaccine and was punctured again and again, would it be able to grasp the meaning of it suffering? most people would say no. Therefore, it is conceivable to posit that a man suffering is not without purpose, but that the purpose is beyond the understanding.

The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself, maybe on the way to self-management perhaps to cure

Our current mental hygiene, philosophy stresses the idea that people ought to be happy that unhappiness is a symptom of male adjustment. Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.

Statistical survey revealed that among Europeans 25% showed a degree of existential vacuum while American students this number was 60%

An existential vacuum is defined as the lack of awareness of one’s meaning, which creates a void in oneself

If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together, so if a therapist wishes to foster the parents mental health, they should not be afraid to create a sound amount of attention through orientation towards the meaning of one’s life

Quotes!
We have to consider that a man who has been under enormous mental pressure for such a long time is naturally in some ways a danger after his liberation, especially when released quite suddenly this danger is the psychological counterpoint of the bends

I really like the way Victor frames his meaning he often will tell a story that illustrates his point occasionally beating you over the head with it and occasionally being very subtle there was a small passage that was highly analytical to understand his dogma, but this is sandwiched by experiences

Logotherapy in a nutshell

Logos or meaning in Latin is about finding a purpose in life. It does not need happiness as a principle and excepts that sometimes life is hard. It spins problems on their heads and confronts the uncomfortable. It says suffering can be a method of finding purpose but also that love, and passion can be equally effective avenues. Paradoxical thinking can help alive tension

Many left the camps to learn their family was taken. The why that allowed them to continue has been extinguished. These men often rebelled, thinking if they had experienced so much suffering they should be entitled to leeway. Some of these men found purpose in living on for their kin.
Others men who lived through the camps with an ambition found a renewed sense of drive and hunger to pursue that purpose.

The philology of a man who has been released from the camps is interesting, while being impossible to determine the actions it is possible to reflect on the common outcomes of these actions through the lense of that persons meaning.
The survival rate of the men in camp was 1/28. Many of those who hung on did so through purpose, and if that purpose was allowed to be fulfilled changed everything post release