NMLP P-040050 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Man's Search for Meaning (orig. Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager)

Viktor E. Frankl · Verlag für Jugend und Volk (Vienna) · 1946

German-original precedence, and the publisher and year in the census entry (Verlag für Jugend und Volk, Vienna, 1946) are right — but the title is wrong, and the error is the standard trap for this book. "…trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen. Drei Vorträge" is an entirely DIFFERENT 1946 Frankl book — three lectures delivered at the Volkshochschule Ottakring — published in Vienna by Franz Deuticke. The two are routinely conflated because modern German editions married the titles: the standard German text is now issued as "…trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager." A copy of the Deuticke lectures is not the first edition of Man's Search for Meaning. First English: Boston, Beacon Press, 1959, titled "From Death-Camp to Existentialism: A Psychiatrist's Path to a New Therapy," translated by Ilse Lasch with a preface by Gordon W. Allport — first edition in English, xiv, 111 pp., in publisher's burgundy/crimson cloth lettered in white (a variant with a blind-stamped front board is recorded), in a very elusive priced jacket (price present at the flap); the first-state jacket carries Gordon Allport's name on the front panel.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-040050 for "Man's Search for Meaning (orig. Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager)" by Viktor E. Frankl (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040050, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).