selesai sebelum akhir semester 5 around mei 2022 maybe
notes and highlights
He who hoas a why to live for can bear almost any How
anjay
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you
dikotomi kendali
Frankl would have argued that we are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.
veri stoic
It insists that life is meaningful and that we must learn to see life as meaningful despite our ciscumstances.
hem
This building, as I was told by someone who worked there, had the word “bath” written over its door in several European languages. On entering, each prisoner was handed a piece of soap, and then—but mercifully I do not need to describe the events which followed. Many accounts have been written about this horror.
what is dis
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
cool
It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
Who can throw a stone at a man who favors his friends under circumstances when, sooner or later, it is a question of life or death?
I guess the answer is no one. I don’t remember why I highlighted this passage
I dreamed longingly, and my thoughts wandered north and northeast, in the direction of my home, but I could only see clouds.
an emotion provoking line
everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way
stoicc
Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually.
He who has any why to live for can bear with almost any how
figure the fucking why
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
Both used the typical argument —they had nothing more to expect from life. 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.
according to logotherapy, this striving to find a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in ma. That is why I speak of a will to meaning in contrast to the pleasure principle (or, as we could also term it, the will to pleasure) on which Freudian psychoanalysis in centered, as well as in contrast to the will to power on which Adlerian psychology, using the term “striving for superiority,” is focused.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
It is one of the basic tenets of logotherapy that man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
I observed that procreation is not the only meaning of life
I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
“The wish is father to the thought” to “the fear is mother of the event.”
Pleasure is and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.
logotherapy bases its technique called “paradoxical intention” on the twofold fact that fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes
The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way to self-management, perhaps to cure”. Paradoxical intention is the empirical validation and clinical application of Allport’s statement.
She is able to “joke about it,” as she says; in short, to apply paradoxical intention.
paradoxical intention is no panacea. Yet it lends itself as a useful tool in treating obsessive-compulsive and phobic conditions, especially in cases with underlying anticipatory anxiety.
As we see, anticipatory anxiety has to be countered by paradoxical intention; hyper-intention as well as hyper reflection have to be counteracted by dereflection; dereflection, however, ultimately is not possible except by the patient’s orientation toward his specific vocation and mission in life.
Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes —within the limits of endowment and environment— he has made out of himself.
that’s a bold statement
once an individual’s search for a meaning is successful, it not only render him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering
meaning orientation had subsided, and consequently the seeking of immediate pleasure had taken over
hem
the truth is that man does not live by welfare alone.
I know that without the suffering, the growth that I have achieved would have been inmpossible
if, on the other hand, one cannot change a situation that causes his suffering, he can still choose his attitude
*******Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.*******
In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured.
his goal was to provoke people into realizing that they could and should exercise their capacity for choice to achieve their own goals. Writing about tragic optimism, he cautioned us that “the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”