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‘Logos’ is a Greek word which denotes ‘meaning’. Logotherapy, or, as it has been called by some authors, “The Third Viennese School of Psychotheraphy” focuses on the meaning of human existence as well as on man's search for such a meaning. According to logotherapy, this striving to find meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man….

The Existential Vacuum

The existential vacuum is a widespread phenomenon of the twentieth century. This is understandable, it may be due to the twofold loss which man has had to undergo since he became a truly a human being. At the beginning of human history, man lost some of the basic animal instincts in which an animal’s behavior is imbedded and by which it is secured. Since security, like Paradise, is closed to man forever; man has to make choices. In addition to this, however, man has suffered another loss in his more recent development inasmuch as the traditions which buttressed his behavior are now rapidly diminishing. No instinct tells him what he has to do and no tradition tells him what he ought to do; sometimes he does not even know what he wishes to do. Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarinism) ~

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