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[copperstitches]

The novel inverts the Genesis story in a number of ways: It is Adam, not Eve, who is tempted; the tempter is female, not a subtle male serpent, and Digory/Adam resists the temptation. His sense of devent behaviour prevails! He obediantly takes the fruit to Aslan and it is planted in Narnia where it grows into a tree which will guard the land and

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[saltnester]

Interesting observations, certainly...[mildly bemused] The serpent was female in some earlier traditions [points at Sistine Chapel], though that's more a Muslim thing. Holbrook seems to forget Lewis lived through the massive loss of social innocence in WWI...he was certainly anti-life, but I don't think that's all attribtable to a Freudian excuse more than his era.

Yay armour!

[copperstitches]

Which would make Holbrook's Freudian analysis more Jungian methinks. Holbrook sounds a bit of a tool anyway...

"What I cannot understand is this sort of half-pacifism you get nowadays which gives people the idea that though you have got to fight, you ought to do it with a long face as if you were ashamed of it. It is that feeling which robs lots of magnificent young Christians in the Services of something they have a right to, something which is the natural accompainment of war - a kind of gaiety and whole-heartedness." Holbrook

"war is sweet to those that have never tasted it" - unknown...possibly Homer.

[saltnester]

In what way/ My favourite Jung quote is "I will never tell Freud my dreams".

Yikes. Just...yikes.

[copperstitches]

Hahahaha, to which Freud responded "the trouble with you, is that you haven't gotten over your father complex!"

In that the loss of innocence could be atributed to C.S Lewis's longing to go back to that stage which he lost during the era (did he serve during WW1?) which could be represented through the archetypal mother figure.