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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the existential vacuum?
2. How does Frankl's understanding of individual meaning differ from that of Jean-Paul Sartre?
3. What happened when prisoners, who were pressured for years, suddenly released that pressure?
4. What does Frankl relate about an American diplomat who, after years of psychotherapy, went to logotherapy?
5. Frankl writes that values do not push, but pull people. Why does he make this distinction?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Frankl write is the "crowning" experience for former prisoners?
2. What were some of the negative things that former prisoners had to deal with after their release?
3. What does Frankl observe about sexuality in the concentration camp?
4. In logotherapy, what is the supra-meaning?
5. What does Frankl argue should supplement the Statue of Liberty and why?
6. How did Frankl leave Auschwitz? What happened at the camp after Frankl left Auschwitz?
7. What is the meaning of love in logotherapy?
8. What was the third stage of a the prisoner's mental reaction? How does Frankl characterize this?
9. In what way does Frankl argue that prisoners could retain "the last of the human freedoms?"
10. What has Frankl termed "noogenic neuroses"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Frankl describes the importance for the individual of finding meaning of life. He writes, "Man's search for meaning is a primary force in his life and not a 'secondary rationalization' of instinctual drives." How does he define the meaning of life? How does he suggest that people search for the meaning in their lives? What role does he give to the conditions in life that seem to fully determine behavior?
Essay Topic 2
In the preface to Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy, Dr. Gordon W. Allport writes, "Somewhere beyond the midpoint of the story Dr. Frankkl introduces his own philosophy of logotherapy." Do you believe that the use of Frankl's personal history, and the examples from the time he spent in concentration camps, adds to or takes away from his description of logotherapy? Would you understand logotherapy in the same way without this background?
Essay Topic 3
Dr. Gordon W. Allport writes that Frankl "sometimes asks his patients who suffer from a multitude of torments great and small, 'Why do you not commit suicide?'" How does Frankl understand suicide? What does he advise people who feel that they do not have meaning in life, or those who plan on committing suicide because they find they can no longer expect anything from life?
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