The next reading consist of a summary about that I have learned in this course, I mean join the grammar structure with another ideas that I’ve learned to reviewed the knowledge.

For this summary I’d like to use the Frankl’s ideas from his book Man’s Search for meaning. To Frankl his ideas are support on the existentialism in that talk about the essence of self doesn’t define his existence. These words are so complicated to understand that it is better to define in what is Frankl’s thesis.

<aside> 🔖 To start and share who was Viktor Frankl, we have to start in the begging. Viktor Frankl born in Vienna, Austria in March 26, 1905. Frankl was a medicine student from his early years, and here he decided to continue his major studies in psychiatry area where he was influenced by philosophers as Schopenhauer, Ostwald, Fechner among others. In a few words, by existentialism philosophers.

This carried to Frankl to send letter to the same Freud, in order to understand how psychoanalysis works. However, Freud’s thought wasn’t enough to Frankl, that he would rather continue with Adler school than Freud school (Adler school was the second Vienna psychotherapy school, after the first one; Freud school). Nevertheless, Frankl wasn’t agree to accept the Adler school, except for some philosophers that he was reading, Heidegger, Jaspers and Scheler. It is prepare to start working with his own theory. The theory that within some years it could be well-known as Logotherapy, the third Vienna psychotherapy school. But before these years, Frankl happened by one of the worst human moments of History.

After Frankl finished his studies, he was working as Psychiatrist in different health places where he attended patients or group of women with mental disorders, To Frankl these experiences help himself to work and understand the origin of some of these kind of neurosis (In basic terms, a neurosis is a mental disorder, not means that a neurosis always is a mental ill). Little time after, the politic situation in his country start to be complicated for the Nazis, and he and his family was carry to a different concentration camps for their Jewish origin.

In this time, is where this book: Man’s search for meaning starts. In this text Frankl didn’t tell the horrible things that the Nazis made to the Jewish town, actually, Frankl as a Psychiatrist decided to analysis how live in a concentration camp affects to the human spirit or in what the human believe; so as to what is the deep reason for human to live and how changes living as a prisioner without any liberty.

Frankl, starts the books tell how people fall such a despair that finished that some people decided take their own life, Frankl didn’t blame them, he understood that option is another way to finish with their suffering. However, Frankl pointed out, that in these kind of circumstances is sometimes where people could be stronger spirituality. During the whole book Frankl will quote to Nietzsche.

Those who have a why to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.

What to mean this quote to Frankl? To Frankl, It means, that those people could give a meaning for their suffering, they are stronger, because they understand their circumstances, thus they accept those ones, and quoted the Frankl words they discover their meaning, This meaning is different to anyone, and it could be change in the time, but that considered as your own meaning. For instance, one of Frankl’s meaning was the love for his wife, even when he get out from the concentration camp all his life was death. But he understand that, and he gave a meaning about his suffering.

We could understand that in those situations Frankl must have lived great suffering, since, we talked one of the sad humanity history. Amazingly, Frankl found his own meaning. He mean to finish his work that is still unfinished for these war times, where he was a prsioner. And he didn’t let to abandoned these places. The Jewish People allowed to have any liberty, they were stripped for any liberty, they lost their names, their lifes, their houses, they have lost their identity, the thing we became in humans. They could have forgotten who were themselves. The Jewish people have already were nothing. Even with this such great hurt, Frankl thought that we have to say Yes to the life.

Frankl thoughts, consist in find our own meaning, and understand that meaning could change, and it is different to one human to another one. This isn’t easy, is a hurt path, but a better option is reading.

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1. Quantifiers: We have countable and uncountable, the main different is when we have ‘a’ before words as ‘little’ or ‘few’, means in a positive way, the opposite when we haven’t ‘a’, means in a negative form.
2. Purpose & Intention: Words as ‘in order to, ‘to’ & ‘so as to’; are to reference a purpose to do something.
3. Preferences: Use would rather… than, to say that you have a preference over another one.
4. Infinitive vs Gerund: There are many cases when it use one otherwise the another one, but the better option is putting on practice.
5. Past continuos: To talk about changing past sates or situations, we use the verb to be in past (was/were) and the verb in ing form or gerund.
6. General truths: To use or say general truth, use the formula ‘could + have + verb(past participle).
7. Intensifiers: We use such/ such a, an + that, to express result and consequences with an intensifier.

These were some of the rules that I’ve just learned with this course and I decided to join all with other ideas that I’ve been learning, in this case the main idea from the book Man’s search for meaning. I recommend this book a lot. The Frankl’s ideas are very deep. By the way I’m trying to make this texts where I combined many thing as form to memorize and reinforce the knowledge, I hope that it could be useful to someone else. And if you have feedback. Tell me ;) All the feedback is always welcome. 📝😃