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The Will to Meaning

Disciplines:
psychology
philosophy

Summary

Frankl's later development of logotherapy — based on his Duquesne University lectures, presenting the theory in a more accessible systematic form.

Core Contribution

A more accessible presentation of logotherapy than The Doctor and the Soul: the will to meaning as the primary human motivation, the existential vacuum (the 20th century's widespread experience of meaninglessness), logotherapy's methods (dereflection, paradoxical intention), and the noögenic neuroses. Extends the theory to the cultural level: the 'existential vacuum' as a cultural phenomenon.

Historical Influences

Man's Search for Meaning

Intellectual Lineage

Existential Psychology

Allied Works

Man's Search for Meaning The Doctor and the Soul

Contemporaries & Peers

The Doctor and the Soul Man's Search for Meaning

Minds Influenced

Existential Psychotherapy

Intellectual Posterity

Logotherapy

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