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ITESM
Human Relations
Man´s Search for Meaning – Partial Project
Name: Luis Ignacio Gutiérrez No: A01039158 Group:104
Instructions:
There are 20 questions (5 pts ea.) form Viktor Frankl´s book Man´s Search for Meaning. Read each question and answer them accordingly.
1. | Analyze and explain the title of the book Man’s Search for Meaning. || What I think it means is that the man is searching for the meaning of freedom because after being a lot of time in the camp he |
| doesn’t know what freedom is anymore so the days after the camp he searches for this meaning by living his life again |
| as he did before getting imprisonment and trying to understand what freedom is all about again. |
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2 | According toFrankl, “An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal.” What is the paradox of this statement? p 38 How can you relate it to a time in your own life? |
| It means that to a not normal situation you do not act normally because you do not know how to act but describes that |
| it is a normal behavior, its paradox its that it’s a normal reaction to a normal situation. |
| I relate itbecause when I’m at a strange situation or place I act strangely according to the situation because its new to me. |
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3 | What is the “ultimate freedom” according to Frankl? p. 12 |
| The ultimate freedom is to “choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances” it means that no matter what a person |
| that can choose how he acts and how he responds is free because noone enforces him how he can be. |
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4 | What were the "phase 1" reactions following entry into the concentration camp scene? pp. 26 – 33, 36 |
| Phase 1 reaction to everything was shock, prisoners were shocked with a sudden turn from events when they arrived in |
| the dreaded Auschwitz when they thought they would go to a factory to do forced labor. Another part ofthe phase was to |
| think that at the last second or moment they would be forgiven and allowed to live their normal life again but this was not |
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5 | What were the "“phase 2" reactions to being well-entrenched in the concentration camp routine? pp 39, 47 |
| The second phase is explained to be the dead of emotions firstly by remembering your home or family makingyou feel bad |
| and miss everything, another emotion is hating everything around you like the camp, the conditions, policemen, etcetera. |
| Apathy is the main thing in the phase because the prisoners “kills” its emotions and doesn’t feel them anymore. |
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6 | What were the "phase 3" reactions to being released and liberated from a concentration camp? pp 105, 112 |
| It isthe sudden liberation of the prisoner where he does not know what to do anymore and doesn’t know what freedom is |
| also he does not understand the situation and circumstances that he was once. Depending on the person is the different |
| reactions like act aggressively justification that he was treated merciless or just act normal to live again its normal life. |
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7 | Whatdo you think Frankl’s definition of love is? pp 59 – 63, 76 |
| He said that love is the salvation of life because it gave a point in life to the person, it gave them hope to continue only |
| to see or to please the love of his life. |
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8 | How does Frankl’s wife give his life meaning? Explain. (passage about Frankl’s wife pp 56 - 61) |
| It gave meaning becausewhile he was in the train or in the camp he continuously thought about her and the idea to once |
| again see his lovely wife kept him going and kept surviving. She was the only hope in the author’s life and the only reason |
| he wanted to be free again. |
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9 | Read p. 48 passage “I shall never forget…” Compare and contrast to this famous passage from Elie Wiesel’s...