The Question of God - Sigmund Freud And C.S. Lewis - 2/6
- 13 years ago
2/6: A continuation of the panel discussion; archival footage of Freud (narrated by his daughter Anna) in the last decade of his life (the 1930s) when he was terminally ill with cancer - this led him to examine the psychology of death once again, focusing on the wish not to die (as he later states: "the unconscious does not believe in its own death - it behaves as if it were immortal") as well as the growing scourge of Nazi anti-Semitism - in 1934 he began to write one of his last works: "Moses and Monotheism" arguing that Moses was actually Egyptian, and his introduction of monotheism led his followers to murder him...