Abstract

The attitudinal perspective of Viktor Frankl pits the "will to meaning" against those who would totalitarianize the world as the Nazis attempted to do with the Holocaust and the Blitzkrieg. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is juxtaposed against Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World to compare and contrast the existential position of each and reemphasize the place of religious values in modem society. Frankl's philosophy and therapeutic system are also considered as a response to The Unheard Cry for Meaning in the contemporary world Further. Frankl provides an alternative to the "behavioristic technology" which reduces man to the status of a rat.