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Viktor Frankl: The Inside Outsider

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Extrait

To be a Jewish citizen of Austria puts one in danger of being impaled on one horn of a dilemma or the other.1

1Viktor Frankl had a fascinating “all-too-Austrian life.” He was born in Leopoldstadt the Jewish section of Vienna on March 26, 1905. He died of heart failure in Vienna on September 2, 1997 at the age of 93. His parents were both assimilated Jews and his father was a member of the civil service with socialist political leanings. From these humble beginnings Frankl eventually developed an international reputation as Holocaust survivor and the founder of his own school of psychotherapy — logotherapy.

2As a teenager Frankl developed an interest in psychology and was initially taken with Freudianism in the early 1920s. He quickly found the Freudian worldview disenchanting and joined Adler’s circle in 1924, embraced the socialism of Red Vienna and became involved in youth counseling. However, with the break-up of Adler’s circle in 1928, Frankl allied with two of the older and

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