Psychological
What if Pleasure is Just a Stand-in for Something Else?
Freud said we're driven by pleasure. Adler said power. Frankl disagreed with both. He argued the deepest human drive is meaning. And when we can't find it, we fill the gap with everything else.
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The thinker
Psychiatrist & Holocaust Survivor
Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist who survived the Holocaust and developed logotherapy, a meaning-centered approach to psychotherapy.
Based on Viktor Frankl — Man's Search for Meaning, summarised and reframed by Insights.
Part of these journeys
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