by loeee » August 19th, 2004, 6:34 pm
In Lewis's own words:
26 March 1963
Dear Patricia
Your letter was cheering, for Till We Have Faces has attracted less attention than any book I ever wrote. The names are just "made up". I expect some Jungianisms do come in but the main conscious prose work is Christian, not Jungian. Divine Love gradually conquers, first, a Pagan (and almost savage) soul's misconception of the Divine (as Ungit), then, shallow "enlightenment" (the Fox), and, most of all, her jealousy of the real God, whom she hates till near the end because whe wants Psyche to be entirely hers.
Yours sincerely,
C.S. Lewis
from Letters to Children Macmillan Publishing, 1985
"You can't go walking through Mordor in naught but your skin."
Put on the full armor of God.