Mujeeb Ali Samo
Book is the best companion. One must read to enhance his in-depth knowledge. Here is a book worth reading” Man’s Search for Meaning” written by Vicktor E. Frankl. This book comprises two parts. In its first part, you will read to know all about the writer’s personal experience during his stay at Auschwitz, a concentration camp which is better known as an extermination camp which is located at Polland. It was the anguished experience of death in prison that he has endured for three years during world war II. Vicktor tells that he is a psychologist by profession. Being a victim of inhuman treatment at the concentration camp at Auschwitz, Frankl believed that even though sufferings were so severe that other prisoners of the camp forget to live a life. The beauty of nature and human candid relations were all inferior to them. The mental torture, starvation, skin-related diseases caused by impurity, and physical loss were inevitable in the camp. The guard of a group of prisoners at camp was called Capos who were charged to number the prisoners on the list to make an accurate number. Physically capable prisoners were sent to do hard manual labor and the week were sent to the gas chamber whose bodies burned in the flame-like stove. Life and freedom look alien and nonentity to us. Frankl writes that he got a chance to evacuate the place before the war broke. He went to collect his visa from the American cousnslats in Vienna. But, he realized as a responsible son to look after his aging parents who will be at the cruelty of German soldiers, SS Guard, of Hitler. Vicktor Frankl envisions life even after facing a lot of manslaughter at extermanation Camp of Auschwitz. He quoted a words of Nietzsche which became a inspiration for him to live life in all hardships. Motivation words for his arrival were ‘ He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How’. Frankl believes that life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud opined, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love ( caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times. The other part of the book is about scope of study of psychology. He wrote about for understanding of the reader what is need of psychology after post-war when he got free from the prison camp of extermination ie Auschwitz. He has given a complete definition of logotherapy. Frank’s doctrine of logotherapy is for citing the soul leading it to find meaning in life, gains credibility against the background of his anguish in Auschwitz. He wanted the depressed souls to find meaning in their life even they have lost everything. He give reference of mundane people who after meeting the end of their work life. There is an example of man who after successfully got retirement in their business felt the sans zeal for life. Their work had given their lives meaning. Often it was the only thing that had given their lives meaning and, without it, they spent day after day sitting at home, depressed, ” with nothing to do”. He treat such patients by saying that having a Why to live for enable them to bear the How. Frankl along with others prisoners of Auschwitz camp got freedom when the American Forces intruded the German brutality. It was life-saving operation that American soldiers have done. Frank narrates that around 1.5 million were the prisoners who face the holocaust at the extermination camp which were named as Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Kaufering, and Turkheim, part of the Dachau complex. While reading the book I have found great deliberation regarding the existence of humans on the earth. We have two types of people living one is decent and the other is indecent. By all mean one can exist in any race. Frankl says told the audience that “it is we ourselves who must answer the question that life asks of us, and to these questions we can respond only by being responsible for our existence.” Man is ultimately self-determining. That is why frankly recommends that the statue of liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast. He says that during his stay at camp was model example of human cruelty. We went on the say at that extent that it were a farewell, not for life, but from life. In Man’s search for Meaning, he hastens to add that suffering is not necessary to find meaning, only that ” meaning is possible in spite of suffering.” Indeed, he goes on to say that ” to suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.”The book is written in German language but that has been translated into more than twenty four languages and sold around 12 million copies world wide. This book is good for sound readers who wanted to know the inhuman atrocities of the Nazi Concentration Camp meted by incarcerated prisoners during world war II. The contains two parts, its first part has been written about writers personal experience as prisoner of Auschwitz camp during 1943 and later has been written about Psychology written during 1984 post world war II periods. Overall pages of the book are 165 worth reading.
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