Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl's 1946 account of surviving Auschwitz — arguing that finding meaning in suffering is the primary human drive — founding logotherapy — one of the most widely read books of the 20th century (16M copies).

Creates logotherapy as a psychological framework — Man's Search for Meaning uses Frankl's Auschwitz experience to argue that meaning (not pleasure or power) is the primary human motivation; the book's combination of psychological theory and Holocaust memoir gives it an authority no purely theoretical work could match.