First of all, we should consider the relationship between people and things. The so-called 30-year-old, food, clothing, housing and transportation, material life are satisfied, in order to gain a foothold in society. Then we should consider the relationship between people. When people reach middle age, it will be complicated, whether they are wives, mothers, friends, superiors, subordinates and so on. Next, inevitably, I have to consider the relationship between people and heart. where i was from? Where are you going? What is the point of living?
How to live the meaning of life? No one answered. Everyone has his own standards and judgments. But most of us, * * * pursue the same meaning: having the freedom to nourish the soul, embracing the beauty of nature, art, poetry and literature, and feeling the love for family and friends.
The beauty of inner freedom is that it belongs to you completely and no one can take it away. Everything a person has can be deprived, and only the last freedom of human nature, that is, the freedom to choose one's attitude and lifestyle under any circumstances, cannot be deprived.
The meaning of life lies in everyone's own choices and feelings. It can be said that the meaning of life is his own creation. Even in the same situation, different individuals will have very different feelings and experiences. Therefore, don't try to judge the happiness of others, don't despise any ordinary individual, and don't measure the feelings of others with your own eyes.
The first two-thirds of the book is the author's documentary in the concentration camp. Just looking at the words, the real violence, evil, the disappearance and loss of human nature will make people feel creepy.
I knew nothing about concentration camps before. My understanding is limited to the artistic life in a concentration camp in A Beautiful Life and the analogy with prison life in The Shawshank Redemption.
But literature and art are literature and art, and life is far more cruel than art. There are not so many touching emotions and dramatic plots, only the suffocating sense of death will never go away.
Of course, besides evil, you can also see the ultimate good, which shines brightly in the dark night. The concentration camp is a magnifying glass, which magnifies both good and evil 10,000 times. You can see how different people are, personality and personality, humanity and humanity.
In fact, the author's description is very calm and restrained, even rational like the attitude of a cold-eyed person, but you can still spy on the black hole through his words. The author's real life experience in the concentration camp makes this book unprecedented.
If this book has a first part, it may only be regarded as a literary work. However, it is the latter part that makes it complete. Become a classic of psychology and even philosophy.
Frankl initiated the concept of "meaningful treatment". Unlike Freud's psychoanalysis, which focuses on the past, Adler's individual psychology focuses on the present, and frankl's logotherapy focuses more on the future. There is no need to argue about the advantages and disadvantages of the three. They are all independent and irreplaceable.
He joked that Freud and Adler's "deep psychology" emphasized the intuition and hope of cutting into the patient's past and subconscious, but he didn't. He pursues "high psychology" and pays attention to personal future and conscious decision-making and action.
His psychotherapy emphasizes helping others reach a new height of life significance through self-transcendence, which is achieved through active efforts, appropriate methods, acceptance of restrictions and wise decisions. His purpose is to inspire people to realize their own abilities and realize that they should use their chosen abilities to achieve their personal goals.
Frankl's meaning therapy suggests that there are three main ways to find the meaning of life.
The first is to create or engage in some kind of work. The second is to experience some things or face some people. In other words, you can find meaning not only from work, but also from love. However, the most important thing is the third way: even helpless victims in desperate situations can surpass themselves and change themselves accordingly in the face of unchangeable bad luck. He can turn personal tragedy into victory.
He himself made the best annotation to this passage with his own life experience. His life is legendary and wonderful, and most importantly, he really lived the meaning of life.
The meaning of his life lies in helping others find the meaning of his own.
As frankl said, "everything a person has can be deprived except the last freedom of human nature, that is, the freedom to choose his own attitude and lifestyle under any circumstances."
Frankl's meaningful therapy is our beacon in suffering. He told us that even if you lose all your freedom, you still have the right to control the meaning of life freely.
Does this mean that pain is indispensable for discovering the meaning of life? No. I just insist that although pain exists, it can even be said that meaning can be found through pain, provided that it is inevitable.
If it can be avoided, it is meaningful to eliminate its causes, because suffering unnecessary pain is not so much a hero as a self-abuse. On the other hand, if you can't change your painful situation, you can still choose what attitude to take.
We don't have to suffer deliberately, and we can't suffer in vain.