Selected Texts

Here are some selected texts and works by Elisabeth Lukas and Viktor Frankl that deal with the themes of finding meaning, life design, and coping with life crises:

Aktielle texte Frau Lukas zur Opiatkrise in den USA

A public health emergency in the land of a thousand opportunities?

A public health emergency in the land of a thousand opportunities?
Elisabeth Lukas comments on the current drug problem in the USA. We obtained permission to publish this text on 27.11.2017.

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Viktor Frankl Zum Krieg

Viktor Frankl on the subject of war and peace

“In light of the challenges of our time, we present to you previously inaccessible and partially unpublished texts by Viktor E. Frankl.

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Aktuelle Texte Vortrag Frankl

Pax and logos

On March 28 and 29, 2015, a memorial event took place in Dachau to commemorate Frankl’s liberation from the external camp of the Dachau concentration camp in Untertürkheim 70 years ago. The first major lecture there was given by Elisabeth Lukas, titled ‘PAX UND LOGOS’ – Peace and Reconciliation from a Logotherapeutic Perspective.

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Aktuelle Texte: Update der Logotherpaie

An Update of Logotherapy?

The text “An update of logotherapy”, which has been available here since June 2014, has also been included in the latest, 4th edition of the German “Logotherapy Textbook” which has been available since September 2014.

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Aktuelle Texte - Themen-der Logotherapie

Key Topics in Logotherapy

Key Topics in Logotherapy: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Lukas in conversation with Prof. Dr. Bernd Ahrendt on 4 April 2018.

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Frankl Text Homo patiens

Homo patiens

Elisabeth Lukas writes in 2018 about Frankl’s experiences in the concentration camps and the suffering of all people in general: The knowledge of the meaningfulness of our tasks helps us develop resilience to suffering.

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On Frankl’s concept of love – an exchange of letters

A previously unpublished text by Elisabeth Lukas, which deals with the concept of love by Viktor Frankl, has now been translated.

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How can we Help Different People in the Current Crisis of War?

“Most people unknowingly find themselves in the war. We must remember that we are not just in a boat, but in an ark, together with the following different groups of people.”

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ELisabeth Lukas Texte zu Frankls gedanken zum krieg

Staying human in war

Born in 1942, I was a child of the war and grew up in bombed-out Vienna. From my early memories, I remember the hunger, the constant power cuts and freezing in my thin coats in winter.

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Aktuelle Texte: Frankls Appel an den Frieden

Frankl’s Peace Appeal

Elisabeth Lukas on Frankl’s Peace Appeal. The text was given to us for publication on 17.5.2022.

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Kämpfer für den Frieden - Brief Frankl

“For a World Congress of Fighters for Peace” – Vienna, March 1949

A text on Viktor Frankl’s peace initiative, shown here for the first time with the generous permission of the Frankl family.

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und frankl hatte doch recht

Frankl was right After all

Elisabeth Lukas comments on modern depression research confirming the validity of the logotherapeutic approach.

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“Peace among us” – Vienna in July 1946

Viktor Frankl wrote in 1946 in an article for the magazine DER TURM, which we show here with the generous permission of the Frankl family.

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aktuelle texte Existenzanalyse

Existence cannot be analyzed

Existence cannot be analyzed How did the terms “logotherapy and existential analysis” come about? Why do we omit the term “existential analysis” in the Elisabeth Lukas Archive and only speak of logotherapy? (2021)

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