The Future of an Illusion

Sigmund Freud

feb 2012 · Broadview Press

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Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, declared that religion is a universal obsessional neurosis in his famous work of 1927, The Future of an Illusion. This work provoked immediate controversy and has continued to be an important reference for anyone interested in the intersection of philosophy, psychology, religion, and culture.

Included in this volume is Oskar Pfister’s critical engagement with Freud’s views on religion. Pfister, a Swiss pastor and lay analyst, defends mature religion from Freud’s “scientism.” Freud’s and Pfister’s texts have been updated in Gregory C. Richter’s translations from the original German.

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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 is the author of several books on Freud including Tales From the Freudian Crypt (Stanford UP).

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.