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Title	:	The Future of an Illusion
Author	:	Sigmund Freud
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	standard
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	September 17th 1989 by W.W. Norton & Company (first published 1927)
Categories	:	Psychology. Philosophy. Religion

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In the manner of the eighteenth-century philosopher, Freud argued that religion and science were mortal enemies. Early in the century, he began to think about religion psychoanalytically and to discuss it in his writings. The Future of an Illusion (1927), Freud's best known and most emphatic psychoanalytic exploration of religion, is the culmination of a lifelong pattern of thinking.

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Original Title:	Die Zukunft einer Illusion
ISBN:	0393008312 (ISBN13: 9780393008319)
Edition Language:	English

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Freud was an accidental a genius, a man who parroted back theories that were already in development in his time and social circle -- the main difference with Freud's take was that it stuck. Sadly, this book follows the trajectory of far too many Freud works, in that it is principally a "dialog" between Freud and a laughably credulous strawman. For a more interesting and insightful look into the same subject, I recommend comparing his "Moses and Monotheism" (which is unintentionally hilarious!)

Read for Advanced Religion. Freud was as thorough as he could be, but he still does not disprove the beliefs in religion but merely discredits them empirically. Remember, the burden of psychology: God as a psychological crutch.

But surely infantilism is destined to be surmounted. Men cannot remain children for ever; they must in the end go out into 'hostile life'. We may call this 'education to reality. Need I confess to you that the whole purpose of my book is to point out the necessity for this forward step?This isn't exactly theory, but more a prose poem or maybe agitprop. Freud deftly employs a dialogue method aiming for some persuasive measure, though accepting that his words aren't likely to influence the

Thought-provoking. In Future of an Illusion, religion is the illusion, what is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes (48). Freud's arguement is fascinating, timeless and ultimatly flawed, but truly thought-provoking.

In Totem and Taboo (1912), Sigmund Freud applied his technique of psychoanalysis to morality and religion. How did these come into existence? Well, when studying sociological phenomena like morality and religion, there's a parrallel to be drawn with the individual behaviour. In other words: individual psychology can be applied to society, to create something like mass psychology.Freud claimed that when children grow up, they go through the father-complex, and this is the exact same cause of

Freud really loses me when his books get into more speculative social criticism, but this one was especially thin. Before I got to it, the editions of Freud's earlier works assured me that "The Future of an Illusion" would contain Freud's devastating arguments against religion, but where are the arguments? He writes in this book as if the arguments have already been made, and here he is only elaborating on some of the secondary questions that arise now that religion has been intellectually

Perhaps relevant in his times, but utter BS today. Our life is, essentially, a dream. If you are pessimistic enough to call any religion a collective illusion or neurosis, then you should have the courage and intellectual honesty to call your entire life, religious or non religious, an illusion and a neurosis. There are countless intelligent people who entirely miss the point of religion or spirituality. They look at it straight from the scientific perspective. From there, it becomes a dialogue