Frankl's systematic theoretical account of logotherapy — his meaning-centered psychotherapy — developed before Man's Search for Meaning but less widely read.
Logotherapy systematized: the will to meaning as the primary human motivation (against Freud's will to pleasure and Adler's will to power). The noögenic neurosis: neuroses that arise from existential and meaning problems rather than psychosexual conflicts — requiring logotherapy, not psychoanalysis. The spiritual dimension: the human being as irreducibly spiritual — capable of taking a stance toward even unavoidable suffering. The full theoretical framework from which Man's Search for Meaning is a narrative illustration.
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