The Human Search For Meaning

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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.

In Man’s Search for Meaning, the neurologist and psychiatrist Victor Frankl wrote about his experience as a concentration camp inmate during the Second World War.

Frankl’s theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos (“meaning”)-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the dis...