DE Weekly: Frankl, Logotherapy, & Tragic Optimism

Last week, I wrote about Viktor E. Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning, which he published in 1946. It details his experiences in a concentration camp during World War II and shares his psychological analysis of not only himself, but of other prisoners and of human beings faced with adversity in general.

This week, I want to expand on what I wrote previously by focusing specifically on the two sections of the book which follow the main narrative: “Logotherapy in a Nutshell” and Frankl’s 1984 postscript “The Case for a Tragic Optimism.”