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Viktor Knavs worked first as a driver for the Jutranjka textile factory, repaired cars, and eventually started his business selling automobiles and parts he brought in from abroad.
- The Will to Meaning
- Logotherapy
- The Meaning of Life
- Choose Your Own Way
- The Power of Spirituality
- Liberation Waits For Us All
Throughout his three year imprisonment, Frankl found there were three ways in which one could find meaning in their life: Through work, through love, or through suffering. He called this concept The Will To Meaning. In thinking about the work he wanted to do after he was free, Frankl would get lost in fantasies about publishing his book, developing...
One can argue that Man’s Search For Meaningis almost entirely about Frankl’s Logotherapy, first in showing the application and later in the book, explaining the true science behind it. Logotherapy is a school of psychology that is centered around helping people find meaning in their life. The concept was also referred to as the “Third Viennese Scho...
Conventional thinking about the meaning of life usually involves a life-long task that is unchanging. If one finds meaning in becoming a musician, it’s assumed that they practice day in, and day out. The same goes for writers, artists, and entrepreneurs alike. But Frankl’s idea of meaning is a bit different. Rather than sticking to one objective me...
When Viktor Frankl arrived at Auschwitz, he had no clue what was going on or what was to be done with him. He wasn’t alone in his confusion, as many of the prisoners also failed to realize that they were no longer free to do as they please. Frankl even recalls people asking if they can bring their personal belongings with them as if they were trave...
Despite the physical and mental torment that each prisoner endured, it was still possible for them to experience a deep sense of spirituality. Overly sensitive people who were used to a rich intellectual life suffered greatly on the outside, as they were typically less hardy. Their inner selves though, according to Frankl, were far less damaged. Th...
For three years, Viktor Frankl remained a prisoner of the holocaust. Shortly after his camp had been liberated, Frankl tells the story of walking through the campgrounds just days after his liberation. The countryside around the camp he was imprisoned at was free and open—a kind of sight that once seemed hopeless to him. In this state of gratitude,...
Aug 9, 2018 · On Thursday, his Slovenian in-laws, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, became United States citizens in a private ceremony in Manhattan by taking advantage of that same family-based immigration program.
Aug 26, 2018 · The Daily Beast says that it was Melania Trump’s biographer who discovered that Viktor Knavs had a record with the Yugoslavian police back in Slovenia.
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Mar 26, 2013 · For Frankl, meaning came from three possible sources: purposeful work, love, and courage in the face of difficulty. In examining the “intensification of inner life” that helped prisoners stay alive, he considers the transcendental power of love: Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
Apr 28, 2022 · Viktor Frankl was offered a visa to immigrate to the U.S. in the early 1940s. He turned it down because it would have meant leaving his elderly parents behind to face the Nazi occupation alone.
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Mar 26, 2019 · By living a life with meaning right to his last breath, Dr. Frankl showed us how his existential philosophy and therapeutic approach were grounded in practice.
