That is interesting, but I don't think it is accurate to equate Epicureanism with logotherapy even though the article uses Frankl's experience as an example. Of course, I'm sure there is a lot of borrowing and overlapping. Also, I don't know much about either philosophy/psychological theory. I read Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning", but I didn't see a way to utilize it for myself. Here is a quote from wikipedia again:That sounds like Epicurus. Hmm...it IS Epicurus!
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Here we see one of Epicurus’ techniques for obtaining happiness even in the most miserable situation: instead of dwelling on the pain, recollect one of those moments in the past when you were most happy. Through enough training of the mind, you will be able to achieve such vividness of imagination that you can relive these experiences and that happiness. This idea is well illustrated by Victor Frankl, the Viennese psychiatrist who suffered four years in various concentration camps, including Auschwitz. Frankl writes that one of the few things that was able to give him a feeling of happiness was conjuring up an image of his beloved wife, and engaging in imaginary conversation with her. As he writes: "My mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look was then more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise." (Frankl 1984, p. 57).
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Logotherapy - WikipediaLogotherapy is based on an existential analysis[3] focusing on Kierkegaard's will to meaning as opposed to Adler's Nietzschean doctrine of will to power or Freud's will to pleasure. Rather than power or pleasure, logotherapy is founded upon the belief that it is the striving to find a meaning in one's life that is the primary, most powerful motivating and driving force in humans
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