The Future of an Illusion

Sigmund Freud; James Strachey; Sterling Professor of History Peter Gay
W. W. Norton & Company
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0-393-00831-2

In the manner of the eighteenth-century philosophe, 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.