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Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.
Man's Search for Meaning, Part One, 1946
Translated by Ilse Lasch · Literature and scripture
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Man's Search for Meaning was first published in German in 1946, drawn from Frankl's experience as a prisoner in Auschwitz and three other Nazi concentration camps. Part One documents his psychological observations about what allowed some prisoners to survive with their humanity intact.

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