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Viktor E. Frankl

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Self-Transcendence as a Human Phenomenon

Journal of Humanistic Psychology April 1, 1966 Viktor E. Frankl 311 citations

THERE are two specifically human phenomena by which human exist-ence is characterized. The first is constituted by man's capacity for self-detachment (Frankl, 1964). Another capacity of man is that for self-transcendence (Frankl, 1965a). In fact, it is a constitutive charac-teristic of being human that it always points, and is directed, to some-thing other than itself. It is, therefore, a...