In Dark Times, We Must Say Yes to Life

In Dark Times, We Must Say Yes to Life
An excerpt from a lecture Viktor Frankl gave 11 months after liberation from a concentration camp
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May 5, 2020
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Austrian psychologist Viktor Frankl in New York City around 1968. Photo: Imagno/Getty ImagesIn 1945, psychiatrist Viktor Frankl was liberated from a Nazi concentration camp. The next year, he would publish one of the most influential texts of all time, Man’s Search for Meaning, about purpose and suffering. Now, in the midst of…
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Viktor Frankl was a psychiatrist and author of the international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning. He died in 1997.
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