This emphasis on responsibleness is reflected in the categorical imperative of logotherapy, which is: "Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
Viktor E. FranklBecause of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and neglects the meaning of his own personal life. Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the “existential vacuum” feeling inner void. Progressive automation causes increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and suicide.
Viktor E. FranklTag: meaning-in-life
Por lo general, sólo se mantenían vivos aquellos prisioneros que tras varios años de dar tumbos de campo en campo, habían perdido todos sus escrúpulos en la lucha por la existencia; los que estaban dispuestos a recurrir a cualquier medio, fuera honrado o de otro tipo, incluidos la fuerza bruta, el robo la traición o lo que fuera con tal de salvarse. Los que hemos vuelto de allí, gracias a multitud de casualidades fortuitas o milagros -como cada cual prefiera llamarlos- lo sabemos bien: los mejores de entre nosotros no regresaron.
Viktor E. FranklSince Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
Viktor E. FranklTag: altertness
There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose
Viktor E. FranklSo, let us be alert--alert in a twofold sense.
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.
And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self chooses the Thou.
Viktor E. FranklIn his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
Viktor E. FranklTag: spiritual conscience creativity artist creative unconscious
Long ago we had passed the stage of asking what was the meaning of life, a naïve query which understands life as the attaining of some aim through the active creation of something of value.
Viktor E. FranklI shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.
Viktor E. FranklTag: prison dream concentration-camp
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