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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 does Frankl argue man determines about his life?
2. What does Frankl call "existential frustration"?
3. What does Frankl write about responsibility?
4. How does the existential vacuum manifest itself?
5. Why does Frankl use the term logotherapy?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is "existential frustration" for Frankl?
2. According to Frankl, what allowed the prisoners to be able to predict their deaths?
3. What does Frankl write is the "crowning" experience for former prisoners?
4. How does Frankl describe the character of the prisoners and the guards?
5. How does Frankl describe the "will to meaning"?
6. What does Frankl claim happened to the inner life of prisoners in concentration camp?
7. What happened when a patient who had been through psychoanalysis went to logotherapy? What difference between these approaches does Frankl illustrate with this account?
8. In logotherapy, what is the supra-meaning?
9. What does Frankl argue should supplement the Statue of Liberty and why?
10. What is the importance of suffering for Frankl?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Frankl writes of the danger of "anticipatory anxiety," which he claims is "characteristic of this fear that ... produces precisely that of which the patient is afraid." What examples does Frankl give of this kind of fear? What does he suggest people do to overcome this kind of fear? Do you agree or disagree with Frankl's understanding of fear?
Essay Topic 2
Frankl writes of how two men who were contemplating suicide seemed to have lost meaning in their lives. He writes, "In both cases it was a question of getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them." How does Frankl understand and describe those who commit suicide? What role does finding the meaning in their lives play for him? Does he sympathize with their despair over their feeling of meaningless and suffering? Does he understand suicide to be a choice, or a simple reaction to unfavorable circumstances? Is this understood as characteristic of neurosis?
Essay Topic 3
Frankl describes three distinct phases in the mental life of the prisoners he lived with in concentration camps. What characterizes each of these phases? Do you believe that these phases can be seen in any other situations or circumstances?
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