We can trace the technique of dereflection to the concept in Judaism called love and chesed.
Dereflection operates by turning attention away from the self and towards a meaningful value.
There are seven divine ways of being, with which human beings are likewise endowed. We integrate these ways of being by emulating divine ways of being in the world.
Chesed comprises one half of a symbiotic unit made up of chesed and gevura, (lovingkindness and restraint or discipline).
While chesed and gevura are ways of being, love and yira (reverence) are the values that activate or motivate these states.
Chesed is the willingness, ability and condition of sacrificing for the sake of love. There is a total focus and paying attention to a higher value, an orientation towards and focus on something outside your self.
Thus, love is a value-indicator. The main expression or manifestation of chesed is giving. Therefore it makes sense that in Frankl’s logotherapy having awareness of a task is primary, and that we dereflect the person away from self-concern to focusing on the task at hand, on what is important, that is to where the focus belongs.