What one becomes within limits of endowment and environment, he has made for himself. Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers and he is also that being who entered the gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. It was Frankl's contention that the pleasure principle of Freud is self-defeating. The more one aims for pleasure, the more his aim is missed.
Pleasure is missed when it is the goal and attained when it is the side effect of attaining a goal.
The therapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the client so that the spectrums of meaning and values become conscious and visible to her. Meaning to life may change, but it never ceases to be. We can discover meaning through creative values, experience values and attitudinal. Listening to music, reading, enjoying sports, etc. As long as one is conscious, he is under obligation to realize values, even if only attitudinal values.