03191cam a22004213u 4500 76774 UtSlPG 20260610134758.0 m cr n 260607r20251928utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 78346237 UtSlPG en iso639-1 BF Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 Die Zukunft einer Illusion. English The future of an illusion Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier The international psycho-analytical library Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_of_an_Illusion Release date is 2025-08-31 Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) The future of an illusion by Sigmund Freud is a psychoanalytic treatise written in the early 20th century. It examines religion as a collective illusion born from human wishes and childhood helplessness, and considers how civilization might sustain social order without sacred authority. Blending psychology, cultural critique, and philosophy, it argues for replacing religious foundations with rational, scientific understanding. The opening of the treatise defines culture as both the human conquest of nature and the regulation of social relations, stressing that it rests on labor, coercion, and instinctual renunciation that provoke resistance. It then turns to the “psychical” supports of culture—prohibitions and privations, their partial internalization as the super-ego, class grievances, the narcotic pride of cultural ideals, and the compensations of art—culminating in religion as the most powerful device. Religion is presented as a projection of infantile helplessness and father-longing that humanizes nature, promises justice and an afterlife, and asserts authority without proof; these doctrines are labeled “illusions” grounded in wish-fulfilment rather than evidence. Anticipating objections that society would collapse without faith, the text counters that laws should be justified by social necessity, recasts religion as a universal obsessional neurosis with totemic roots, and urges “education to reality” and gradual reliance on reason and science, even while admitting the transition will be slow and contested. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Edinburgh: Horace Liverwright and the institute of psycho-analysis, 1928 Religion Psychology, Religious Psychoanalysis Jones, Ernest, 1879-1958 Robson-Scott, W. D. (William Douglas), 1903-1981 The international psycho-analytical library https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000587124 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76774 117499 117499