The Catholic Book Club discussion

This myth has been often reinterpreted as allegory. Knowing that C.S. Lewis was a master of allegory (both as critic and as author), do you think "Till we have faces" is an allegory, and if so of what?

The myth of Eros and Psyche was easily converted into allegory in Christianity. Psyche represents the human soul, and her failure when she betrayed her beloved, is human sin. So Psyche represents everyone of us.

Lewis was aware of this. That's the reason why Orual hears at the end of the book: "You also are Psyche."

This is the C.S. Lewis 's way difference to his friend J.R.R. Tolkien that he employs the myth in his fiction Lewis is Closer to the protestant writers Spencer, Milton and Bunyan and he employs the Allegory we can see in his academic work Allegory of Love.