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the meaning of unhappiness

Published on September 16, 2005 at Wisdom

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Edith Weiskopf-Joelson, before her death professsor of psychology at the University of Georgia, contended, in her article on logotherapy that our “current mental-hygiene philosophy stresses the idea that people ought to be happy, that unhappiness is a symptom of maladjustment. Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.” And in another paper she expressed the hope that logotherapy “might help counteract cartain unhealthy trends in the present day culture of the United states, where the incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his/her suffering and to consider it enobling rather than degrading” so that “he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.”

(Victor Frankl – Mans Search for Meaning)

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