Key Insights from "Yes to Life - In Spite of Everything"
- Life is meaningful: Viktor E. Frankl maintains that life holds potential meaning under any circumstances, even the most miserable ones.
- Will to Meaning: Unlike Freud's will to pleasure or Adler's will to power, Frankl postulates the will to meaning as the primary motivational force in human beings.
- Existential Vacuum: Frankl discusses how modern society's lack of traditions and ideologies has led to a void or emptiness, referred to as the existential vacuum.
- Logotherapy: This form of psychotherapy was developed by Frankl, focusing on a positive future and the...