Freud's Last Session

Award-winning American writer Mark St. Germain, who has a special talent for historical fiction, imagines the first and last meeting between the legendary writer C.S. Lewis and one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, Sigmund Freud, in 1939.

Two days after the start of World War II, in Freud's study in Hampstead, London, the Austrian father of psychoanalysis and staunch atheist conversed with an Irish writer (later famous for 'The Chronicles of Narnia'), known for his conversion to Christianity and his works.

The conversation—inevitably polite, yet provocative—revolves around the existence of God, Freud's daughter, Lewis's neighbor, Lewis's trauma as a soldier in World War I, and the suicide that Freud is planning (and, as history shows, will commit twenty days later).