This paper is published in Volume-7, Issue-3, 2021
Area
Literature
Author
Akshaya
Org/Univ
Pondicherry University, Kalapet, Puducherry, India
Keywords
Human Existence, Sufferings, Logotherapy, COVID-19
Citations
IEEE
Akshaya. Logotherapy as a framework of a cure for COVID-19, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARIIT.com.
APA
Akshaya (2021). Logotherapy as a framework of a cure for COVID-19. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 7(3) www.IJARIIT.com.
MLA
Akshaya. "Logotherapy as a framework of a cure for COVID-19." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 7.3 (2021). www.IJARIIT.com.
Akshaya. Logotherapy as a framework of a cure for COVID-19, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARIIT.com.
APA
Akshaya (2021). Logotherapy as a framework of a cure for COVID-19. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 7(3) www.IJARIIT.com.
MLA
Akshaya. "Logotherapy as a framework of a cure for COVID-19." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 7.3 (2021). www.IJARIIT.com.
Abstract
At times, human existence is resisted by certain external forces and affirms that there exists a meaning in suffering similar to the meaning in life. Suffering is an integral part of life like fate and death, without which life is incomplete. An external force, be it a war or a dreadful pandemic outbreak, may possibly hem in people for an unknown period of time. Such provisional existence in a confined space affects balance in the psychological state of mind. The decline in the belief in the future predominantly lingers in the minds of people. This paper attempts to view the ongoing pandemic period of COVID-19 through the lens of Logotherapy, a theory propounded by Viktor Frankl in his book Man’s Search For Meaning. It also highlights that holding on to the inner self is the only way out of suffering.