  As well as Prior’s journeyings between the hemispheres, there was his seemingly complicated inner journey from religious believer to non-believer. The inner journey, which is not easy to chart, was complete by the time he arrived in Manchester, and seems to have taken many years. It may have begun in 1941, with Prior’s developing interest in psychoanalytic explanations of the origin of religious beliefs (a topic first alluded to in Prior (1935)). In his September 1942 publication ‘Can Religion Be Discussed?’—a dialogue between five characters named Barthian Protestant, Modernist Protestant, Catholic, Logician, and Psychoanalyst—Prior gave the closing speech to Psychoanalyst, who explains that circumstances may ‘push’ a believer into