In his final days, Sigmund Freud, a recent escapee with his daughter from the Nazi regime, receives a visit from the formidable Oxford Don C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia). On this day, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century intimately engage in a monumental session over the belief in the future of mankind and the existence of God.
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00:01 - Professor Lewis.
00:02 - Dr. Freud.
00:03 - I've given you up for lost.
00:05 Joffrey is my personal assistant.
00:07 - Really?
00:08 - Well, if a patient is calm,
00:10 Joffrey always stretches out at my feet.
00:12 But if a patient is agitated, Joffrey stands at my side.
00:16 - What should I make of his running away at the sight of me?
00:18 - Ah, well, he's also a fanatic about punctuality.
00:21 - Well, you have a wonderful home.
00:25 - My daughter, Anna, tried her best
00:27 to replicate our home in Vienna.
00:29 - Forgive me, but why would you come here to see me
00:31 if you disagree so passionately with my views?
00:34 - To make you realize that you're wrong.
00:36 (laughing)
00:38 - Well done, good!
00:39 - You've insisted all your life
00:42 that the very concept of God is ludicrous.
00:44 - Yes, why someone of your supreme intellect
00:46 would suddenly abandon truth
00:48 and then embrace a ludicrous dream, an insidious lie?
00:52 - Well, I wholeheartedly disagree.
00:54 - Well, of course you disagree, you have to disagree.
00:56 Otherwise, the entire structure of your childish faith
00:59 will collapse into a rubble.
01:00 - Why does religion make room for science
01:02 because science refuses to make room for religion?
01:05 - Oh, please, you're breaking my heart.
01:06 Because they hide behind their ignorance.
01:08 You hide behind your ignorance.
01:10 - I think that you're afraid to feel emotions at all.
01:13 - Is that your final diagnosis?
01:14 Fascinating.
01:15 - I don't know.
01:16 - You don't know?
01:17 Well, finally, finally, finally, we're making progress.
01:21 - You lie to yourself, thinking that you can control death,
01:27 the way you control your world and your daughter.
01:29 - Anna's dedicated to the science.
01:33 - Is she seeing someone?
01:34 - She has no time for relationships.
01:36 - I'm worried about my father.
01:37 He has no one.
01:38 - There must be someone.
01:39 - Me.
01:40 - That's my girl.
01:41 - Truth is, you're terrified.
01:44 - We're all terrified.
01:46 See, you bury your doubts,
01:47 you bury your memories of the war
01:50 at the core of your being.
01:52 We're all cowards before death.
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