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...posed two questions: "Why did C.S. Lewis, an Oxford don, come to embrace a world view diametrically opposed to his atheism? "and "Why did Freud not also experience this transition...
According to Nicholi, Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, had a materialistic world-view. He called himself a materialist, a godless medical man and an atheist. Lewis, an Oxford don and author, had a spiritual world-view...
Despite their ideological differences, Freud and Lewis used the same arguments to present their views, including ethics, happiness and suffering...
...Freud raises an argument and Lewis attempts to answer it," Nicholi said. "Lewis serves as a spokesperson for the specific world view that Freud attacks...
...Freud said spiritualism was composed of illusions and wishful thinking. Lewis countered Freud's view of spiritualism by saying the spiritual world-view involves pain and despair, and is not wishful...