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Equus by Peter Shaffer Dr. Martin Dysart of Peter Shaffer's play Equus is a man faced with the modern dilemma of Sigmund Freud's "problem of religion." It is a problem which must be asked of religious scholars such as Ninian Smart and states briefly this: religion was once a powerful and driving force in the lives of human beings but now we have evolved to such a point where we realize it to be an …

…end of Worldviews. I believe Dr. Dysart would disagree with Freud after his experience with Alan and instead lean toward Smart's conclusions. Science, currently, is unfulfilling in the face of real worship. As Dysart says, without worship, you shrink. Science cannot yet answer our questions or our yearning for, as the Ojibway call it, the Gichi Manidoo-the Great Unknown or Mystery. Will it one day? Perhaps that can appropriately be called, "the problem of science