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Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

PsychologyPhilosophyBiography & Memoir
Publish date
1946
Publisher
Buccaneer Books
Description
THIS BOOK DOES NOT CLAIM TO BE an account of facts and events but of personal experiences, experiences which millions of prisoners have suffered time and again.
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  1. The Death of Ivan Ilyich

    Leo Tolstoy

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  2. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    Friedrich Nietzsche

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  3. The Interpretation of Dreams

    Sigmund Freud

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  4. The Neurotic Constitution

    Alfred Adler

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  5. The Sickness Unto Death

    Søren Kierkegaard

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  6. Being and Time

    Martin Heidegger

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  7. Faust

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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    Frankl draws upon Goethe's literary works to reflect on human endurance, spirit, and cultural resilience.

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