Logotherapy in the school environment and the area of religious sciences: interacting with people in situations of suffering

Resumo

The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus has bequeathed new questions that require more consistent responses and new alternatives for crises ranging from the global scope to the private sphere. The post-pandemic context will challenge the adoption of original and creative postures in social, cultural, and religious contexts. Postmodern ideology, which tried to mask all existential experiences as fleeting and ephemeral, is no longer adequate to answer the problem of human suffering, which is not experienced as a passing and superficial emotion. Inserted in the Jewish tradition, the founder of logotherapy, the Jewish theorist Viktor Frankl admits that in circumstances of great suffering, as in the concentration camps, the search for meaning in life can be the only answer against total despair. Considering the transdisciplinary field open to the comparative history of religions and the psychosocial critique of the religious phenomenon, we will establish a dialogue between Frankl's thought and the Sciences of Religions.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/methofocusinterv1-013