The Spiritual Worldview By Sigmund Freud

Lewis’s conversion to Christianity was the biggest influence on his literature. As stated before, Lewis was raised a Catholic by his parents, but he eventually turned his back on all of his Catholic beliefs and became an atheist. As time went on, the Holy Spirit kept on softening Lewis’s atheist heart until one day Lewis’s life would change. Lewis would turned away from atheism and turned back to God. This all started in 1929 when Lewis started acknowledging the existence of God again like his Catholic root taught him years ago. This is a big step for any atheist who is on the road of converting to Christianity. He would receive his first test of faith that same year however because that was the year his dad died. This was obviously hard for him to mourn, but he got through it by the grace of God. Lewis officially became a Christian after a long talk with fellow Christian writer J.R.R. Tolkien. Lewis helped many other writers establish a discussion group of writers called The Inklings. Lewis’s Christian faith was a major influence on his

When you think about Abraham Maslow, Erik Erikson, and Sigmund Freud's theories, they all have to do with psychology. They all have to do with the mind. Abraham Maslow’s theory, Theory of Hierarchy Needs, is a description of the needs that motivate human behavior. Erik Erikson’s theory, Theory Eight Stages of Development, has eight stages that include trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame/doubt, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority, identity vs. role confusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, and integrity vs. despair. Sigmund Freud’s theory, Theory ID, EGO, SUPEREGO, emphasized the importance of the unconscious mind and a primary assumption that the unconscious mind governs behavior to a greater degree than people suspect.

In times of hardship and strife it can be difficult to hold onto faith and religion. So imagine being taken from home at the age of 15 and being thrown into a concentration camp immediately separated from friends and family and being forced to work around the clock in harsh conditions hardly being fed and witnessing countless deaths at every corner. Well the main character in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel had to face this exact thing and many more which made him change spiritually and faith wise over the course of the of the novel going from being completely devoted to God to hating him during his horrific time in the concentration camp which drastically changed him as a person and shaped the story as a whole regarding the fact that it's easy to lose your spirituality in times of trials and tribulations.

In 2002, Doctor Armand Nicholi, Jr. sought to put two of the greatest minds of the 20th century together to debate the answer to the lifelong question, “Is there a God, and if so, how should we respond to his existence?” Nicholi is the first scholar to ever put the arguments of C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud side by side in an attempt to recreate as realistic of a debate as possible between the two men. He examines their writings, letters, and lectures in an attempt to accurately represent both men in this debate. His result, the nearly 300 page book, The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life, is one of the most comprehensive, well researched, and unbiased summaries of the debate between

That being said, I respect greatly the continued humble position that he takes in this book of reaffirming that he is not a theologian, but a layman who is doing his best to reason through, in this case, the Problem of Pain. This humility is present as a precursor to the main meat of his argument that being: an omnipotent God whom is sovereign in a world that is pain filled, in that he admits that this is merely his best conception of what is God’s true Intrinsic Impossibility. Whittling down Lewis’ argument to a far too simplistic paraphrase: He states that because God has created a World with natural laws, and men with a free will He is only able to act supernaturally so often while still having these laws and freedom remaining. Illustrating the free will of man being usurped by the power of God "impossibly", one could think of a man wishing to kill another by pulling the trigger of his gun only to find that, his bullet has in fact turned into a feather.

In the article, “The Question Of God,” the author Dr. Armand Nicholi, Jr writes about the thinking of Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis on the existence of God and about how they came to their approaches and beliefs. Sigmund Freud is a well-known psychiatrist who proclaimed himself an atheist.    C.S. Lewis was at one time an atheist and then changed his worldview and developed a belief in a higher power/God being. Freud uses a psychological approach and presents arguments that God does not exist.

Psychoanalytic Theory was originated by Freud, and he proposed that early childhood experiences directly determine our actions and motives throughout adulthood. Freud also believed that there are three structures to personality, which include the id, ego and superego. This fits into my worldview by reminding me how fragile our minds are. What we experience in the past definitely plays a factor in our futures. Keeping this in mind, it is important to be consistent in our interactions with children, because being anything but encouraging will only cause discouragement (Colossians 3:21).

How does all of this fit into Lewis’s argument for the existence of God? Lewis breaks it down into a three-statement syllogism, which is a method of logical reasoning utilizing deductive reasoning based on two or more statements that are assumed true in order to reach a conclusion in an argument. The first premise states that if God does not exist, then moral values do not exist. Secondly, objective moral values and duties do exist, so therefore, God exists. Objective moralities are those which disagree with universally accepted human preferences. If a person agrees with both of the premises, then they reach the given conclusion. But, for a person who is not a theist, they can maintain their nonbelief through

C. S Lewis recalls his spiritual journey as an atheist to a full on believer in Christ through his book Surprised by Joy. Lewis grew up in Belfest Ireland where he first found his love for writing and reading. He would listen to stories from his older brother of the boarding schools in England where he would soon be attending and where he finds his first taste of Atheism and rationalism. Lewis soon grows up and is thrown into the horrors of WWI on his 19th birthday. After the war C.S. Lewis attends Oxford and often moves around. It was not until later in life and at the end of the book that Lewis became a Christian. “I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed”.

One name that jumps out at the mention of psychology, or the study there of, is the name of Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Freud is also known as the “Father of Psychoanalysis.” Freud was also known for having the tendency to trace nearly all psychological problems back to sexual issues. Although only parts of his theory of psychosexual development are still accepted by mainstream psychologists, Freud's theory of the Oedipal Complex has become a cultural icon (Freud, Sigmund, 2012).

but his theories on dreams seemed to be the most popular, even to this day.Freud thinks that the agent that

Sigmund Freud's revolutionary ideas have set the standard for modern psychoanalysis in which students of psychology can learn from his ideas spread from the field of medicine to daily living. His studies in areas such as unconsciousness, dreams, sexuality, the Oedipus complex, and sexual maladjustments laid the foundation for future studies. In result, better understanding of the small things, which shape our lives.

Sigmund Freud, a noteworthy trailblazer of modern-day philosophy, developed a deterministic view on human nature based on instinct and personality. Unlike other theories, Freud considers us not as humans, but animals with inborn biological drives: a complex species with primitive urges. These urges, he says, are only kept under control by the pressures between peers and the repression of society. Though the word “instinct” can relate to a wide range of impulses, Freud narrowed it down to four main drives: Self-preservation, aggression, the need for love, and the impulse to attain pleasure and avoid pain. These topics along with the model of the psyche embedded within the principles of pleasure and civilization form the most

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, is predominantly recognized as one of the most influential and authoritative thinkers of the twentieth century. Freud gave a broad perspective on things involving dreams, religion, and cultural artifacts while still focusing on different states of the mind, such as unconsciousness. Freud also relied on a local sexual repression issue to create theories about human behavior. His theories and ideas of psychoanalysis still have a strong impact on psychology and early childhood education today. Freud’s most important claim is that with psychoanalysis he had invented a new science of the mind, however, remains the subject of copious critical debate and controversy.

At the age of 40 in 1896, Sigmund Freud introduced the world to a new term- psychoanalysis (Gay 1). Psychoanalysis is a method of treating patients with different nervous problems by involving them in dialogues which provide the physician with insight into the individual’s psyche. These dialogues provided the basis for Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, which “attempts to explain personality, motivation, and psychological disorders by focusing on the influence of early childhood experiences, on unconscious motives and conflicts, and on the methods people use to cope with their sexual and aggressive urges” (Weiten 363). Part of this theory involves the structure of the mind. This is a concept that touches