The Question of God, Armand Nicholi

The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life, Armand Nicholi

Freud and C.S. Lewis?

This was an interesting article about "Harvard professor of psychiatry Armand Nicholi"'s book titled The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life.

As he reacquainted himself with Lewis's work, Nicholi was struck by the parallelism in his writing and Freud's. It was as if Lewis was attempting to answer Freud's questions one by one. "I was startled by this," Nicholi says. "I realized that Freud was the father of the new literary criticism that was sweeping the universities of Europe at that time. Freud gave the literary critics new tools for understanding human behavior, as described in the great literature. So Lewis knew Freud's writings well and after he changed his worldview from secular to spiritual, and began to define it and defend it, whose arguments did he answer but those of Freud?" After all, these were the very arguments that Lewis himself had used to defend his atheism prior to his conversion.

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