Outside the scientific community, Frankl is best known for one book, Saying Yes to Life: A Psychologist in a Concentration Camp. The beautifully translated Logotherapy and Existential Analysis places Frankl’s magnum opus in the context of his scientific and life biography.
On the one hand, the book serves as a continuation of Say Yes to Life, allowing us to trace the evolution of Frankl’s main idea — about meaning as the main engine of human life — from its first steps in 1938 to the end of the XNUMXth century. However, interesting as it is to observe Frankl’s dispute with the two currents of the first half of the XNUMXth century, psychoanalysis and individual psychology, the main value of this book lies elsewhere. Frankl’s philosophy is universal, and the experience of Auschwitz is not necessary in order to follow it. Because it is a philosophy of life.
Alpina non-fiction, 352 p.