Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning in his work Man's Search for Meaning

In his work Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl narrates his experience in a concentration camp which led to his development of logotherapy, a form of existential psychoanalysis. He was an abused prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, and there he found himself contemplating to his own bare existence. His entire family was killed in these camps, and his possessions as well as much of his life's work were taken from him. In the brutal …

…many challenges of suffering and evil, he takes a surprisingly hopeful view of man's capacity to transcend his circumstances and discover a guiding truth. This search for meaning, exemplified in logotheraphy, maintained his life and sanity through tortures most people will never have to endure. While Frankl is indeed an existentialism, in that he questions being and suffering, he takes a far more optimistic view of human life and its capacity for goodness and love.