Armand nicholi biography

Armand Nicholi’s seminar, which he has taught without interruption for the past 35 years, is now the basis for his book, ‘The Question of God: C.S.

Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life.’

For Sigmund Freud there was considerable doubt. Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, didn’t just question religious belief, he attacked it as childish, escapist, and unworthy of a mature, rational mind.

The doctrines of religion, Freud wrote, “bear the imprint of the times in which they arose, the ignorant times of the childhood of humanity.” He asserted that “the religions of mankind must be classed among the mass delusions,” and that “when a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him … we need not be greatly surprised at the weakness of his intellect.”

In 1967, when Armand Nicholi, associate clinical professor of psychiatry, began teaching a seminar on Freud at L