C. S. ルイスの『天路逆程』に見るフロイト批判の意義

抄録

In this essay the author attempts to examine how Clive Staples Lewis refuted Freud’s argument about human nature and mind. Until he returned to Christianity and became a powerful apologist, Lewis had to make a long journey of difficulties with twists and turns. The Pilgrim’s Regress is the first book he wrote after he was brought back to Christian faith. Written in a form of allegory, the story tells how Lewis came back to what was his original belief. In the story, a young man named John sets out from his home of Puritania in search for an Island where he might be saved and set free. While wandering, John strays into Zeitgeistheim, where he is captured by a man called Sigismund. This caricatured character representing Sigmund Freud and his followers has this to say: the Island is nothing other than a lustin disguise and the eastern mountains are no more than reified wishful thinking. In the face of this theory which explains what are real as mere reflections of subjective human thoughts and feelings, John realizes that reality and truth exist independent of, and apart from, human minds whether one likes it or not. Fundamental criticism of Freudian notions was an absolutely necessary step in the process of Lewis’s “regress”.