SR08 · Module
Meaning-Making in Suffering and Crisis
Viktor Frankl and Nietzsche on finding a 'why' that bears any 'how', Kierkegaard on despair as the threshold of authentic selfhood, and transmuting suffering into the 'great health'.
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“He who has a why can bear almost any how.”
“Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering. The meaninglessness of suffering, not suffering itself, was the curse that lay over mankind so far.”