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David Wilson-Okamura > > Not that C. S. Lewis would ever need to do anything like what I have been > describing here. According to George Sayer's biography, he was a very fast > reader. My wife is like that -- we've been married eleven years and she has > lapped me so many times that I have stopped counting. So maybe he did read > Freud. I think in his case the onus has to be on those who would wish to show that he didn't. Certainly the Freud giant in *The Pilgrim's Regress* is something of a caricature, but then the work is avowedly satirical. And do I remember from A.N. Wilson's biography (which I don't have before me) that he was at least for a time on friendly terms with Freud's grandson Clement? Clement has never been a person to suffer fools gladly, and I doubt he'd have given very long shrift to someone who was trying to get by on a hearsay knowledge of his grandfather's writing. Charlie Butler