Objective of man in search of meaning
The main objective of the book is the story of personal experiences, narrated by a psychiatrist who is admitted to a Nazi concentration camp during World War II and in which his main idea is to look for meaning to life, highlighting events that occurred withinThat concentration camp. Emphasizing the daily sufferings of inmates and the behaviors they develop.
The life for the inmates was very hard, they had a very limited food compared to the guards, since they had privileges and were not brutally beaten as the prisoners, they were constant duels to obtain a piece of bread, to stay alive and comply with theassigned tasks or for saving a friend.
In the concentration camp, the sick, the weakest, those prisoners who could not comply with the assigned tasks were selected and were taken to the gas chamber in central fields during World War II to execute them.
Those prisoners who entered the concentration camp resulted in a shock phase because they questioned that it was going to happen with them having the worst in mind, they received the welcome of prisoners who appeared to be well fed and have good physical conditions. This created an illusion in the newly arrived prisoners and made them believe that their days were not told and that they became an idea that what they were going to live there was not going to be so difficult. Something totally false, since these prisoners with good physical conditions were characters that are part of the welcome committee and created those false hopes in those who just arrived. The newly arrived prisoners were stripped of all their belongings, since the field authorities were only interestedWomen with forced labor, so much was the suffering that these inmates lived that several had suicidal thoughts and planned to launch against the fence in order not to have that experience anymore.
Those prisoners were looking for a way to make that experience making humor -based therapies in order to look otherwise the experience they were living, those who had a high level of malnutrition lost sexual desire, even sexual desire was notexpressed either in the dreams of these characters.
When these prisoners were released, where they felt that there were no people who gave them orders, these had contact with the outside felt that they no longer had happiness and that happiness must be recovered little by little. That is, they went through a depersonalization process, these people felt the need to tell what they had lived for hours and hours and lived a constant duel between the body and the mind, since their body felt satisfied and fed properlyWithout limitations, but his mind felt that he should recover that happiness.
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