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100 1 _aFreud, Sigmund,
_d1856-1939
240 1 4 _aDie Zukunft einer Illusion. English
245 1 4 _aThe future of an illusion
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aThe international psycho-analytical library
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_of_an_Illusion
500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-31
508 _aRichard 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.)
520 _aThe 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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cEdinburgh: Horace Liverwright and the institute of psycho-analysis, 1928
653 _aReligion
653 _aPsychology, Religious
653 _aPsychoanalysis
700 1 _aJones, Ernest,
_d1879-1958
700 1 _aRobson-Scott, W. D.
_q(William Douglas),
_d1903-1981
830 0 _aThe international psycho-analytical library
856 4 _uhttps://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000587124
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76774
999 _c117499
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