> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Introduction to Till We Have Faces: Lewis's Greatest Novel (Mythic Mind, ep. 113)
- URL: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/introduction-to-till-we-have-faces-lewiss-greatest-novel-mythic-mind-ep-113/
- Published: 2025-10-08T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:37:39.000Z
- Author: Andrew Snyder

Mythic MindEpisode 113

# Introduction to Till We Have Faces: Lewis’s Greatest Novel (Mythic Mind, ep. 113)

Dr. Andrew Snyder

8 October 2025

[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSaprLzGIO8&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)

## In this episode

Lewis thought Till We Have Faces was his best novel. Critics shrugged; readers still finish Book One standing at the edge of a mystery. This Mythic Mind introduction opens his retelling of Cupid and Psyche: Orual’s veiled face, jealous love, and a myth that aims at the heart before it yields its meaning.

Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) frames why this book feels less like allegory than the Ransom novels, what “bareface” was meant to name, and how to enter Orual’s case against the gods without demanding a tidy moral on first pass.

Topics include myth versus on-the-nose allegory, imagination before explanation, and secondary reading that helps without replacing the story.

### People

**Dr. Andrew Snyder**Host and speaker

### Key themes

- Myth versus on-the-nose allegory
- Imagination before explanation

## Related

- [**Till We Have Faces, Part One: Orual Behind the Veil (Mythic Mind, ep. 114)**Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KhXO9V0PRw&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
- [**Till We Have Faces, Part 2: Orual Unveiled (Mythic Mind, ep. 115)**Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIQVoUnfx6o&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
- [**Myth Became Fact: The Incarnation as True Myth (Mythic Mind, ep. 116)**Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNI3hTdgXB8&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
- [**The Great Divorce: Heaven, Hell, and the Choice That Divides (Mythic Mind, ep. 117)**Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfA0S1KzxM&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)

## Books mentioned

- [**Till We Have Faces**C.S. Lewis](https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780062565419?ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)

## Go deeper

The Cosmos

### [Venus](https://mythicmindfellowship.com/cosmos/)

The Third Heaven

Find it on the Cosmos

Fellows and Companions study every course in the Academy, current and future.

[View Membership Options](https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership/)

[Previous in Mythic MindThe Abolition of Man, Part 2: Conditioners and the Conquest of Nature](https://mythicmindfellowship.com/the-abolition-of-man-part-2-conditioners-and-the-conquest-of-nature-mythic-mind-ep-112/)[Next in Mythic MindTill We Have Faces, Part One: Orual Behind the Veil](https://mythicmindfellowship.com/till-we-have-faces-part-one-orual-behind-the-veil-mythic-mind-ep-114/)

[All episodes in The Gallery](https://mythicmindfellowship.com/videos/)