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For the past 30 years, students of psychiatrist
Dr. Armand Nicholi have been studying this
question. Nicholi teaches a
Harvard course
on Sigmund Freud, the legendary founder of
psychoanalysis, and
C.S. Lewis, the celebrated
writer who converted from atheism to Christianity.
The course was originally designed to be about
Freud’s philosophical views, but evolved into
a comparison of Freud and Lewis when many
of Nicholi’s students expressed their disagreement
with Freud and asked for some balance.
Why Lewis? First, to counter Freud’s adamant
unbelief obviously required someone whose faith
in God was just as deeply ingrained. More, it required
someone who was articulate in defending that faith.
C.S. Lewis is regarded by a growing number of people
as the most eloquent spokesman for Christianity in the
last century. And though he was 42 years younger than
Freud and probably never met him, Lewis knew Freud’s
views well — he had shared them for roughly half his life.
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