No matter how closely we relate to another individual, there remains a final unbridgeable gap. There is a conflict between the awareness of our fundamental isolation and the wish to be protected, to merge and to be apart of a larger whole. All humans search for a sense of significance and purpose in life. We all can have an internally derived value system that does provide a meaningful life. We have to find our own values and not those imposed upon us.
Many people perceive the world as meaningless.
Meaningless in life leads to emptiness and hollowness, or a condition that Frankl called the existential vacuum. People have to create their own meaning. If we don't we may suffer from existential guilt which is a condition that grows out of a sense of incompleteness or a realization that we are not what we might have become. If we are not living authentically, we experience this guilt. Logotherapy is designed to help clients find a meaning in life.