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Reprint of the 1928 edition. "The Future of an Illusion" is a book written by Sigmund Freud in 1927. It describes his interpretation of religion's origins, development, psychoanalysis, and its future. Freud describes religion as an illusion, as one of the wishes that are the "fulfillments of the oldest, strongest, and most urgent wishes of mankind". This title remains a landmark work of the 20th century.
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Overview

Reprint of the 1928 edition. "The Future of an Illusion" is a book written by Sigmund Freud in 1927. It describes his interpretation of religion's origins, development, psychoanalysis, and its future. Freud describes religion as an illusion, as one of the wishes that are the "fulfillments of the oldest, strongest, and most urgent wishes of mankind". This title remains a landmark work of the 20th century.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780393008319
  • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 9/28/1989
  • Edition description: The Standard Edition
  • Pages: 80
  • Sales rank: 175,436
  • Series: Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
  • Product dimensions: 5.30 (w) x 7.80 (h) x 0.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Todd Dufresne is Professor of Philosophy at Lakehead University & Visiting Professor (Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology) at the University of Toronto. He has published widely on Continental philosophy, including several books on Freud. Gregory C. Richter is Professor of German and Linguistics at Truman State University and the translator of many works from German and French. Dufresne and Richter have also collaborated on the Broadview Edition of Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Sigmund Freud: A Brief Chronology

A Note on the Text

The Future of an Illusion

Appendix A: “The Illusion of a Future”: Oskar Pfister’s Response to Freud’s The Future of an Illusion

Appendix B: Other Works by Freud and Pfister on Religion

1. Sigmund Freud, “Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices” (1907)
2. From Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo (1913)
3. From Sigmund Freud, “Scientific Interest in Psychoanalysis” (1913)
4. From Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents (1930)
5. From Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism (1939)
6. From Oskar Pfister, On the Psychology of Philosophical Thought (1923)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 9, 2005

    Freud...one of my candles in the dark

    In this book Freud shows how the need for religion and a god who will protect us at all times stems from the helplessness of our childhood. Basically, there comes a point in our adolescence when we realize that we will die one day. This thought is much too threatening for our immature and underdeveloped brain to deal with. In order to satisfy our infantile wish of never dying, primitive humans invented a god figure who will save us from the inevitability of this. Freud shows how the protection we received from our mother/father/guardian easily converts, in our older age, to the concept of god. If logic, reasoning and science are the tools you use to run your life read this book. If faith is the method in which you acquire your information, read at your own risk.

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 7, 2007

    You can't believe everything

    I felt that I should put in a comment if this is considered a review. I read the book about twenty years ago when I started college. I was and still am, a Born Again Christian. The book, to me, had alot of mistakes form a man who totally did not understand true Christianity, despite his knowledge.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 18, 2002

    My God! -- or a lack there of...

    First things first, I'm a high school senior and at first this book is intimidating. People pointed and laughed when they saw that I was reading "for fun." Fortunately, and this is one of the best decisions of my life, I persisted. I'd never been very clear as to what my feelings were on religion, so I decided to read a selection of religious papers advocating religion and giving logical points confirming God's existence, then making myself familiar with atheistic theories. After doing both, Freud's "The Future of an Illusion" being my atheistic selection and a collection of papers attempting to use mathematical evidence to back up The Bible being my religious selection, I made my choice overwhelmingly to do away with any thoughts of religion.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 15, 2000

    Powerful yet soft

    I am a devoted follower of many of Freud's psychological theories (except those sexist ones), and this is one of the best books I've read by him. Without resorting to insults or blantant attacks on Christianity, he goes to show that religion is a sociological disease and must perish or take us all down with it. He could have been a little harsher, though.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 27, 1999

    Don't let 'Freud' turn you off from this book!

    I first read this book in college, and I was mesmerized. I have since bought myself another copy, and I have purchased several for friends. Now, I am NOT a Freudian with regard to psychology, but Freud does have a very clear way of writing. This book details the logical argument for atheism yet remains respectful of religion. If you are an atheist/agnostic and have trouble putting your beliefs into intelligent words, this book is for you!!! It analytically explains the psychological reasons for religion, thereby validating it, but it does intelligently state why religion is not likely related to truth or fact in any way. A wonderful, intelligent book...Freud--who knew?

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