Thus, the typical self-centeredness of the neurotic is broken up instead of being continually fostered and reinforced.
To be sure, this kind of statement is an oversimplification;
yet in logotherapy the patient is actually confronted with and reoriented toward the meaning of his life.
And to make him aware of this meaning can contribute much to his ability to overcome his neurosis.
Let me explain why I have employed the term “logotherapy” as the name for my theory.
Logos is a Greek word which denotes “meaning.” Logotherapy, or, as it has been called by some authors,
“The Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy,” 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 a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man.
That is why I speak of a will to meaning in contrast to the pleasure principle
(or, as we could also term it, the will to pleasure) on which Freudian psychoanalysis is centered,
as well as in contrast to the will to power on which Adlerian psychology, using the term “striving for superiority,” is focused.
The Will to Meaning
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