{"id":2459,"date":"2011-02-17T17:35:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T01:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2011-02-25T21:10:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T05:10:54","slug":"cs-lewis-meets-sigmund-freud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/cs-lewis-meets-sigmund-freud\/","title":{"rendered":"C.S. Lewis Meets Sigmund Freud"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 255px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"    \" title=\"C.S. 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Deane Little Theater in New York City, &#8220;Freud&#8217;s Last Session&#8221; is an off-Broadway play by Mark St. Germain.\u00a0 <em>First Things<\/em> magazine recently ran an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/2011\/02\/an-evening-with-lewis-and-freud\">&#8220;On the Square&#8221; article on it<\/a>.\u00a0 The play has done very well, playing to sold out audiences and has extended its performance calendar twice.\u00a0 According to the article, Woody Allen went and enjoyed it.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lohud.com\/article\/20110217\/LIFESTYLE01\/102170367\/The-doctor-is-in\">Here is another article in a local newspaper<\/a> chronicling the play&#8217;s remarkable success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1939, Sigmund Freud was living out his last days in England, essentially a refugee from his native Austria, where the rise of Nazism made life there unsafe.\u00a0 One day, Freud was visited by a much younger Oxford professor, whose identity is unknown.\u00a0 Could it have been C.S. 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