Utashi wa Kupata Maana (Viktor Frankl)

Instead of pleasure or power principles, a will to find meaning (Viktor Frankl)

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KISWAHILI

"Acha nieleze kwa nini nimetumia neno ‘logotherapy’ kama jina la nadharia yangu. Logos ni neno la Kigiriki linalomaanisha ‘maana’ [au kusudi]. Logotherapy...inazingatia maana ya kuwepo kwa binadamu na vilevile utafutaji wa mwanadamu wa maana hiyo.

"Kulingana na logotherapy, hii utashi wa kupata maana katika maisha ya mtu ndiyo nguvu kuu ya motisha [ya ubinadamu]. Ndiyo maana ninazungumza juu ya utashi wa kumaanisha tofauti na kanuni ya raha...ambayo uchambuzi wa kisaikolojia wa Freudian unazingatia, na vile vile tofauti na nia ya kutawala [tatizo la kujidharau] ambayo saikolojia ya Adlerian…ikizingatia.…

"Utafutaji wa maana…ni ya kipekee na mahususi kwa kuwa lazima inaweza kutimizwa na [mmoja] peke yake tu; ni hapo ndipo tu inafikia umuhimu ambao utakidhi utashi ya kumaanisha kwa mtu huyo.”

- Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997) alikuwa daktari wa magonjwa ya akili wa Austria, mnusurika wa Holokosti, mwandishi, na profesa.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

“Let me explain why I have employed the term ‘logotherapy’ as the name for my theory. Logos is a Greek word which denotes ‘meaning’ [or purpose]. Logotherapy...focuses on the meaning of human existence as well as on [one’s] search for such a meaning.

“According to logotherapy, this striving to find a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force [of humanity]. That is why I speak of a will to meaning in contrast to the pleasure principle…on which Freudian psychoanalysis is centered, as well as in contrast to the will to power [inferiority complex] on which Adlerian psychology…is focused.…

“[One’s] search for meaning…is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by [one] alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy [one’s] own will to meaning.”

- Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997), was an Austrian psychologist, Holocaust survivor, author, and professor

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Kuhusu (About):

KISWAHILI

Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997) alikuwa daktari wa magonjwa ya akili wa Austria, mnusurika wa mauaji ya kimbari yaliyoitwa Holokosti, mwandishi, na profesa. Kutokana na ukatili aliona na alionea katika kambi za mateso, aliendelea kutengeneza mbinu ya kisaikolojia inayojulikana kama tiba ya kisaikolojialogo inaitwa logotherapy ambayo inasema nguvu kuu ya motisha ya mtu binafsi ni kutafuta maana katika maisha.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997) was an Austrian psychologist, Holocaust survivor, author, and professor. Drawing upon the brutality he saw and experienced in the concentration camps, he went on to develop a psychological method known as logotherapy, which says the primary motivation of an individual is to find meaning in life.

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KISWAHILI: Asante na tutaonana tena,

Mmerikani

ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Thank you and may we see each other again,

Mmerikani

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Chanzo (source): Frankl, Viktor E. Man's Search for Meaning. Boston: Beacon Press, 1949, pages 98-99. Kindle Edition.