Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning: An Emblematic 20th-Century lifeTimothy Pytell
The life and works of Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) comprise an important piece of the tapestry of Vienna's golden age of psychotherapy. The historian Timothy Pytell provides a careful and even-handed examination of both the man and his scholarly contributions., An assimilated Austrian Jew who stud...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 327-330 |
| Review of: | Viktor Frankl's search for meaning (New York : Berghahn Books, 2015) (Vincent, C. Paul)
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| Summary: | The life and works of Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) comprise an important piece of the tapestry of Vienna's golden age of psychotherapy. The historian Timothy Pytell provides a careful and even-handed examination of both the man and his scholarly contributions., An assimilated Austrian Jew who studied medicine at the University of Vienna, Frankl was attracted early on to the work of Freud. Yet, soon disenchanted, he rejected what he deemed “the reductionism of psychoanalysis” and Freud's paramount reliance on biology and anthropology. Already reflecting on his experience in 1925 (he was 20 at the time), Frankl wrote that he had “looked into the abyss of the nihilism of reductionism” (p. 24). Abandoning Freud, Frankl briefly adopted the “individual psychology” of Alfred Adler. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcx033 |