DE Weekly: Frankl, Suffering, & Man’s Search for Meaning

“He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.” I recently read Viktor E. Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning, and he cited this quote from Friedrich Nietzsche a few times throughout the narrative, reminding himself and the reader just how important a sense of meaning can be.

Frankl wrote Man’s Search for Meaning in 1946 as more of a therapeutic outlet than anything else. The book details his experiences in a concentration camp during the Second World War; above all, the book tries to answer the question: “How was everyday life in a concentration camp reflected in the mind of the average prisoner?”