AP+P2+2014-15+Logotherapy

Macee, Christian, Gabe, and Sam

Logotherapy Aim- Macee 2. Aim 3. Macee Owen 4. The aim of logotherapy, according to Viktor Frankl’s theory, is to find the meaning of life. Therapy is used to treat a disorder or illness, while the Greek meaning of “logos” is “meaning” (Frankl 121). The aim of logotherapy is often to assist those who are struggling in finding a purpose to life. In several situations in Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl gives examples of logotherapy used on people who do not even have a mental disorder. Frankl states, “I would strictly deny that one's search for a meaning to his existence, or even his doubt of it, in every case is derived from, or results in, any disease” (Frankl 125). According to Frankl, many “patients” of logotherapy often do not even need genuine therapy, it is just a tool to help them find their meaning in life. Therefore, according to the novel Man’s Search for Meaning, “existential frustration” and man’s actual search for the meaning of life is common in most people. Consequently, the aim of logotherapy is to help those average people who struggle with finding their purpose in life and to be an aid in showing them their worth, meaning, and a purpose or reason for their suffering.

5. Works Cited > "Viktor Frankl and Logotherapy" Timlebon. n.p, n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2014.
 * 1)  Frankl, Victor. Man’s Search For Meaning. Vienna, Austria: Beacon Press, 1946. Print.

Audience - Christian > > > > "Viktor Frankl and Logotherapy" Timlebon. n.p, n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2014.
 * 1)  Audience
 * 1)  Christian Mortensen
 * 1)  When coming up with Logotherapy Frankl intended his audience to be all human beings. In reality though, the audience who mostly use and understand his concept of Logotherapy are people that do not struggle to actually survive every day, as those people have to worry about life and death and the only meaning in their life is survival, but rather people who are well off, with good jobs and families, who have found their life to be a life with no meaning and no true fulfilment. In his book Man’s Search For Meaning, according the Frankl, “man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life” (121) showing that all people can use Logotherapy to find meaning. Due to how every single person on this planet is striving for meaning, in one form or another, anybody can use Logotherapy to help them on their journey through life. The primary audience would be those who are suffering through doubt in their continuation of living, but Frankl intended to help all people on this journey, as it is one everyone takes.
 * 1)  Frankl, Victor. Man’s Search For Meaning. Vienna, Austria: Beacon Press, 1946. Print.

Historical – Gabriel > > > > > > >
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 * 1)  Historical [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/L18ssxU7GZRaNYr3FF13zGSxqboUfoFnzKaMaj9oG3D4V8U3rvJw2tJf1SiqehjuHvMQP7YyRtCnjt60CU4p8C3arRaq0PbM5U54XrH_LJuYdcsKnysZP1e0VMi9cHA4RQ width="384px;" height="180px;" caption="Dreams Unconscious Sigmund Freud.jpg"]]
 * 1)  Gabriel K.
 * 1)  – Frankl's philosophy on logotherapy is different form Sigmund Freud's and Alfred Adler's previously established belief systems, which took a reductionist perspective on explaining the whole of human behaviour and which said that the whole is merely the sum of its parts. Frankl was initially an adherent of both Freud's and Adler's philosophical systems, but finding both their perspectives to be reductionist (reducing the human spirit and mind to predictable and explicable machines) he founded his own school of thought. Freud attributed all of a human's troubles to being sexual in nature, and explained the human mind through the terms of Id, Ego, and Superego. Historically, humans have tried to understand humanity as an understandable and non spontaneous mechanism all of whose behaviours could be explained. These previous thought systems were based on psychoanalysis or individual psychology, but Frankl based his beliefs on logotherapy to treat neurotic disorders. This method helps humans to gain the understanding that humans are not machines; they are humans.
 * 1)  Frankl, Victor. Man’s Search For Meaning. Vienna, Austria: Beacon Press, 1946. Print.
 * 1)  [|__http://www.iep.utm.edu/freud/__] (cannot cite due to database error)
 * 1)  "Viktor Frankl and Logotherapy" Timlebon. n.p, n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2014.

Cultural - Sam > > > Logotherapy is only useful because of the culture that humans live in today, not all humans but those humans who live in the middle class and upper class who are left to think of what the purpose of their life is. Humans desire a purpose for everything, it can be seen in it’s most basic form as a child being bribed, the child will do something for the purpose of getting the treat. The importance of a purpose reaches a defining point of being necessary for a person to see any point in life anymore, “According to logotherapy, this striving to find a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man”(Frankel 98). The cultural impact that is at hand because of logotherapy is primarily due to the cultural brokenness that has occurred. Instead of man only surviving, now he doubts whether survival is worth it, which is why logotherapy has become so important to today’s culture. > >
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 * 1)  Cultural
 * 1)  By the one and only Sam Fennema (at Empire High School)
 * 1)  Frankl, Victor. Man’s Search For Meaning. Vienna, Austria: Beacon Press, 1946. Print.
 * 1)  "Viktor Frankl and Logotherapy" Timlebon. n.p, n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2014.