Sufferance, Freedom and Meaning: Viktor Frankl and Martin Heidegger

• Authors: Brencio Francesca

Title variants

PL

Cierpienie, wolność i sens. Viktor Frankl i Martin Heidegger

• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to show the relationship between Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy and Martin Heidegger’s Daseinsanalyse. I will underline a proximity between Frankl’s approach to sufferance and Heidegger’s in the framework of existential analysis and phenomenology. Starting from the common assumption that in suffering our capacity to be free is reduced and our freedom is always threatened, both Frankl and Heidegger developed different approaches to signify sufferance, to give meanings to our life, even when terrible circumstances happen. Suffering and freedom are reciprocally related because of the original constitution of the human being: a human being is essentially in need of help because he is always in danger of losing himself and of not coming to grips with himself. Both Frankl, through his logotherapy, and Heidegger, with his hermeneutical phenomenology, give to psychiatry and psychology a radical contribution in interpreting human being, its finitude, its sufferance and its radical freedom.

PL

Celem powyższego artykułu jest ukazanie związków pomiędzy logoterapią Viktora Frankla a Daseinsanalyse Martina Heideggera. Odpowiednio w ramach analizy egzystencjalnej i fenomenologii wykazuję bliskość Franklowskiego i Heideggerowskiego podejścia do cierpienia. Wychodząc z rozpowszechnionego przekonania, głoszącego, że w cierpieniu wolność jest zawsze zagrożona, a przy tym doświadczanej wówczas w sposób ograniczony, zarówno Frankl, jak i Heidegger, rozwinęli odmienne podejścia w kwestii postrzegania znaczenia cierpienia i sensu życia w sytuacjach, w których przytrafiają się nam rozmaite nieszczęśliwe zdarzenia. Cierpienie i wolność są ze sobą wzajemnie powiązane, co wynika z pierwotnej konstytucji człowieka: jednostka ludzka zasadniczo zawsze znajduje się w potrzebie, ponieważ zawsze bywa narażona na niebezpieczeństwo zagubienia i niemożność powrotu do siebie. Zarówno Frankl poprzez logoterapię, jak i Heidegger poprzez hermeneutyczną fenomenologię, włożyli znaczący wkład w psychiatrię i psychologię, interpretując jednostkę ludzką, jej skończoność, cierpienie i radykalną wolność.

Keywords

EN

Victor Frankl; Martin Heidegger; logotherapy; Daseinsanalyse; hermeneutics; phenomenology; existential analysis; freedom

PL

Victor Frankl; Martin Heidegger; logoterapia; Daseinsanalyse; hermeneutyka; fenomenologia; analiza egzystencjalna; wolność

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Studia Paedagogica Ignatiana
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 18
• Pages: 217-246

Dates

issued

2015

Contributors

author

Brencio Francesca

• Western Sydney University, Australia

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Identifiers

ISSN

2450-5358

DOI

10.12775/SPI.2015.011