2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
The last page of Viktor Frankl's memoirs has been finished. This amazing person gives hope to all desperate, suffering people. This hope is so strong that it transforms all experience, integrates it, helps to get back on its feet, to live, no matter what. Born in Vienna, Austria in 1905, he was to become one of the most significant figures in modern psychotherapy.
Having gone through all the horror of fascist concentration camps (in three years he went through four such camps), having lost almost all of his loved ones - mother, father, brother and wife, he did not lose himself. In the camp, he continued to work on his book The Doctor and the Soul, a version of which was sewn into the lining of his coat, but when it was lost, the main points of the book were transcribed on the back of German forms that a friend had given him.
In the book, Frankl talks about how important it is to express your love and appreciation to your loved ones "here and now."
In a completely different way, unlike all sorts of regrets and the feeling that everything was in vain, Frankl invites us to look at his experience and Life itself. This is a revolutionary approach that brings fullness to life. Let's listen to his words.
I would like to speak about one more point. Frankl writes about this episode for the first time, he did not mention it earlier in any of his books. Determination, as opposed to circumstances that threaten us, saves lives. The desire to insist on one's own - saves. Once at the Auschwitz station, undergoing selection, Viktor Frankl fell into the clutches of the executioner - Dr. Mengele. He grabbed him by the shoulders and turned him to the left - where they were sending the doomed to the gas chamber. But since, as Frankl writes, he did not see the colleagues he knew in that queue, and two of his young colleagues were directed to the right, he went, behind Dr. Mengele's back, to the right!
Unique is his confession to a friend on one of the first days after returning to Vienna. In it, Victor gave free rein to his feelings, but also made a paradoxical conclusion that changes everything!
If we talk about life in the camp in relation to what can help us to cope with anything, then we are talking about self-distancing, self-transcendence, that is, about going beyond ourselves. In order to strive with all our thoughts, with all our being, towards the Meaning, which is in the future, in a situation desirable for us and, thus, serves as a vector of our growth, our development, which ultimately allows us to realize it!
We find the following wonderful idea about the attitude to age in the book. She tells us that development is possible throughout human life and serves health - both mental and physical.
And here is what Frankl writes about responsibility for his life. He considers it to be the basis and the meaning of being.
It seems to me that this is about not hiding, distorting yourself. We are called to unfold ourselves, all our abilities, talents, all our liveliness, all our feelings, all our communication, all our good thoughts. Show yourself, that is, be yourself, choose life according to your own taste. Giving yourself and accepting gifts from others. To love from fullness, not from deficiency. To be!
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