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Freud and Lewis, despite their many differences, share striking similarities. Lewis went through an atheistic period in his young adulthood—and justified much of it based on Freud??s philosophical writings. Although primarily involved in clinical work, Freud is considered the father of the “new literary criticism” that Lewis might have studied and used in his teachings at Oxford...
...seriously. And much to my surprise, I found that there was a striking parallelism—Freud raises a question and Lewis attempts to answer it. And I realized as I got to know more about Lewis that Lewis was in literary criticism, and at that time in Europe, Freud??s concepts were permeating the universities and providing literary critics with new tools to use in understanding human behavior. So Lewis knew Freud??s work very very well. And he also used Freud??s arguments from his philosophical works to defend his own atheism...
...have a psychiatrist respond to him? Obviously Lewis is responding to Freud??s work but he is coming at it from a different angle because he is in literature...
...come up over the horizon, and a new light is being shed as hypnosis comes out of the shadows,” Kosslyn says proudly. Hypnosis has a long history in psychology, extending back to Freud??s era, but according to Kosslyn, has never developed to its full potential...
...seems, then, that Freud??s idea about jokes is eminently applicable to the YDN’s April Fools gesture, which marks not so much an innovation in content, but rather one in form; an ironical joke has been substituted for what had already been stated in straightforward editorial—and news—form several months earlier...