Man’s Search for Meaning: Logotherapy: Existential Frustration Summary & Analysis

Frankl defines the term “existential” as referring to the state of existing as a human being, the value and purpose of existence, or the will to meaning. In other words, existential problems are those that involve the question of what it means to be a human and to be alive. Frankl says that a man’s will to meaning can be hampered by “existential frustration,” which can in turn cause “noögenic neuroses.” Noögenic is a logotherapeutic term that comes from the Greek word noös, or “mind,” and refers to anything connected to “the dimension of human existence.”