Word: freuds
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...Love, and Joy: Contrasting Perspectives" was the topic of discussion in the 100th Annual William Belden Noble Lecture series last night. Lecturer Armand M. Nicholi and respondent Joseph B. Martin dealt with the conflicting views of Sigmund Freud's materialism and C.S. Lewis's spirituality in relation to the lecture topic...
Martin, dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS), gave an example of Freud's materialist view when he described the four natural human drives as the four "F's," "feeding, fighting, fleeing...
Surprisingly, despite their differing world views, Freud and Lewis shared similar ideas about sexuality, Nicholi said...
...Freud equates happiness with pleasure, primarily instinctual or sexual pleasure," said Nicholi, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at HMS and at Massachusetts General Hospital...
...Lewis agreed with Freud that there's nothing forbidden or sinful about sexuality [and] that most people find [monogamy or abstinence] extremely difficult," he said...