MASTERY QUIZ

Man’s Search for Meaning

Test your knowledge with 45 questions across 3 challenge tiers

Based on the book Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

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Logotherapy

The form of psychotherapy developed by Frankl focusing on finding meaning as the primary human drive

Example

Logotherapy helps patients find meaning in their lives rather than focusing on past traumas or pleasure

Will to Meaning

The fundamental human motivation to find purpose and significance in life

Example

Frankl argues the will to meaning is more fundamental than Freud will to pleasure or Adler will to power

Existential Vacuum

The state of emptiness and meaninglessness that leads to psychological problems

Example

Modern people often suffer from existential vacuum – a sense that life has no purpose

Tragic Optimism

The ability to remain optimistic despite suffering through finding meaning in pain

Example

Even in concentration camps some maintained hope by finding purpose in their suffering

Paradoxical Intention

A therapeutic technique where patients are encouraged to do or wish for what they fear

Example

An insomniac told to try to stay awake may find sleep comes naturally when fear is removed

Self-transcendence

The human capacity to reach beyond oneself toward meanings and other people

Example

Meaning is found not in self-focus but in dedication to causes or love for others

Attitudinal Values

Meaning found through the attitude one takes toward unavoidable suffering

Example

When nothing can be changed one can still choose ones attitude toward the situation

Creative Values

Meaning found through what we give to the world through work and creation

Example

Creating work contributing ideas or making things provides one source of meaning

Experiential Values

Meaning found through what we receive from the world in experiences and relationships

Example

Love beauty nature and relationships provide meaning through experience

Dimensional Ontology

Frankl view that humans have physical psychological and spiritual dimensions

Example

The spiritual dimension – the search for meaning – is uniquely human and irreducible

Noogenic Neurosis

Psychological problems originating from existential frustration and lack of meaning

Example

Unlike standard neurosis noogenic neurosis stems from spiritual rather than psychological conflict

Sunday Neurosis

Depression that appears when the busy week ends and meaninglessness becomes apparent

Example

The emptiness felt when activities stop reveals underlying existential vacuum

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