A good man with meaning is difficult to find
Introduction
Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist who suffered first hand the oppression of concentration camps. In fact, it is this experience that reflects this work, with which it manages the circumstances.
Developing
Thus, he manages to enter into a deep existentialist essay where he seeks to unravel the thought of a man who loses everything and still achieves the strength to not only survive, but even to dream and maintain his entire dignity and spirit by achieving meaning to suffering, as Frankl himself quotes through Nietzsche: who has a why to live, will almost always find how. According to logotherapy, it is the struggle to discover this sense that constitutes the true motivation of man, but it is a difficult path that each one must travel on their own. Only in this way will man satisfy this will to mean.
As for the work, you can see a clear psychological evolution in the prisoners, which Frankl will divide into three stages. The first stage is the arrival in the fields, which is a shock when leaving his life behind and realizing that they are no longer people, but simple numbers, nothing has value, the only possession that they have left is their own nudity. It highlights a concept, the illusion of the pardon, where some of them conceive the unfounded hope that they will be released at the last moment, which is nothing but a way of grabbing the slightest hope, using it as a comfort that attenuates the hardness of the hardness of reality.
As time goes by, we enter the second stage, where the prisoners begin to experience dehumanization characterized by the loss of emotions, apathy and the feeling that nothing will ever care again, which will derive in an insensitivity moral that many used as a proof of acts such as the betrayal or use of brute force in battle to exist.
That is why the author mentions a sad reality, and that is that those who return, they are the ones who stop fighting to live and resign to survive, losing in the process the little humanity that they had, in fact, the capos they became the most cruel. Thus our author reaches a conclusion: the best among us did not return.
It is currently when physical pain stops importing, and humiliation and outrage caused by both the injustice and irrational of the situation, become the worst of torments. Man is unable to understand such evil, and the only escape of him is to hold on to the memory of his loved ones and seek meaning.
That is why, if one of them decided to give up, it was tried from them. A consequence of this phase is the fact that the beauty of the slightest detail begins to be appreciated, such as a dawn, using it as proof that there are still good things in the world.
The last stage is characterized by depersonalization where prisoners must recover the lost, they must learn to feel. However, this is not a simple path, especially because spiritual pressure is sudden be victims to be oppressors.
conclusion
We must also emphasize the fact that, in many cases, liberation was not as pleasant as it can be assumed a priori, since many of the prisoners, when they returned to their ancient life, realized that everything had changed, many of the Family members and loved ones with those who longed to meet again, are dead, which generated not only a deep bitterness, but also an acute disappointment, because the suffering they already believed past and limited, had proven infinite. This makes them not want to continue their way, because as mentioned in this work, they did not expect to find happiness, but without a doubt, they were not prepared for unhappiness.
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