Lewis was attentive to his whole life: the modern tendency to possess a cranky irritability about our own private, inner space. Lewis thought that in modernity human beings have a particular tendency to think of what is inside them—thoughts, dreams, feelings, emotions, desires—as a kind of inner sanctum, which they might sometimes share but is where they feel most real and authentic. Lewis thought this tendency to psychological individualism was not only peculiarly modern but presented a special obstacle to loving God, given that we are constitutionally reluctant to admit God into the inner
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