This paper uses Frankl’s logotherapy for the analysis of Toni Morrison’s novels and their protagonists in The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and A Mercy. The different traumatic events make Morrison’s novels suitable for logotherapeutic reading and analysis. Morrison’s way of presenting slavery and identity issues are in accordance to Frankl’s presentation of oppressed prisoners in concentration camps and introducing the ultimate meaning in the most difficult situations. The first part of the paper focuses on the definition of literature of trauma based on the intertextual contacts between Frankl’s and Morrison’s writing. The second part presents Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning and logotherapy as the source for the analysis. The third part examines literary subjects based on Frankl’s experience in the camp, through shock, relative apathy, and the psychology of the prisoners after trauma. The fourth part of the paper presents the possibility of finding meaning in life and the pathways to meaning taken by the protagonists. The paper concludes with Frankl’s tragic optimism, observing literary subjects in the light of the tragic triad; pain, guilt, and death, and how and if they managed to find the ultimate meaning and purpose in life by turning their suffering into achievement, changing themselves, and taking responsible actions.