The title character we meet at the beginning of Freud’s Last Session – a talky, speculative drama that imagines a meeting between avowed atheist Sigmund Freud, who invented psychoanalysis, and the Christian apologist writer CS Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia – is on his last legs.
He is 83, forgetful and in constant pain from the oral cancer he was diagnosed with 16 years earlier.
It’s a pain that Sigmund (played by Anthony Hopkins) medicates with