Viktor Frankl Symposium Events
Man’s Search for Meaning: a symposium on Viktor Frankl
This symposium will explore the life, ideas, and continued relevance of the oft-overlooked Jewish intellectual and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, borne out of his experience of the Holocaust, has had a profound yet underappreciated influence on a wide variety of disciplines and on generations of readers. The symposium, in the spirit of the Jesuit ideal of cura personalis, encourages the Fairfield community to reflect upon their search for meaning in a disorienting time of rapid technological, societal and political change. Through lectures, performance, and conversation, this symposium will bring scholars, medical practitioners, religious leaders, artists and others together through interdisciplinary and interfaith dialogue.