Pursuer

Victor Frankl, the author of the book was a Professor of Neurology & Psychiatry at University of Vienna. During the time of holocaust, being a Jew he was sent to Nazi Concentration & Extermination Camps- including Auschwitz for three years. While many prisoners in the camps perished, he of a delicate physical composition survived the suffering. The book details his personal experiences of the concentration camp, analyses the reasons Frankl (& few others) survived in such harsh & torturous conditions and came out with his abilities intact to live a meaningful life again after release.  Dr. Frankl’s idea of life is different from Freud who believed ‘Life is a primarily a quest for pleasure’ and also from Alfred Adler who said ‘Life is a quest for Power’. Frankl believed ‘Life is a quest for meaning’ & he saw three possible sources for meaning-- in Work, in Love & in Courage. Frankl’s says ‘forces beyond your control can take away everything except your freedom...