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...depression and mouth cancer, and for Lewis, numerous deaths of family and friends and problems in his career. Both men seem equally unprepared to deal with the greatness of human suffering; Freud never seems to resolve the meaning of or reason for suffering, and even Lewis with his spiritual worldview can not explain God’s seeming absence during times of need...
...semester, the students kept saying, “This is very interesting but it’s imbalanced—it’s one sustained attack on the spiritual view—so why can’t we at least have someone define and defend the worldview that he attacks?” I thought about that for two or three years and didn’t know who would be a good counterpoint to Freud, because he’s a pretty formidable intellect...
...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. So after Lewis’ transition to a spiritual worldview, as he begins to define and defend that worldview, he uses arguments that are counterarguments for Freud’s arguments. So this provides a real striking parallelism that I never realized was there, and I think it’s this dialectic that makes the course what...
...think that everyone’s preoccupied with these questions at some level. I think everyone embraces some form of Lewis’s worldview or some form of Freud’s worldview. Everyone, whether they realize it or not, has a worldview. That worldview is formed very early in life, and it begins with one of two premises: one is that the universe is an accident and life on this universe a matter of chance, and the other is that there’s an intelligence beyond the universe that is somehow related to our purpose in being...
...this in my course—and to look at it through “scrutinized observation” (to use Freud’s phrase). But the point is that everything that we look at we see through the lens of our worldview, and therefore the worldview that we bring to the evidence—even in science—influences how we interpret that evidence. So our worldview probably tells us more about ourselves than anything else in our personal history. It’s interesting that medicine over the past several years has taken a real interest...