The Future of an Illusion
English translation · Translated by W. D. Robson-Scott
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Freud's essay of 1927 begins by asking what future awaits human culture, which he treats as both mastery over nature and the arrangements that govern relations between people. It then turns to religious belief, which he treats as an illusion born of wishes. This English version is by W. D. Robson-Scott and appeared in 1928 as number 15 in a psychoanalytic series edited by Ernest Jones. An editor's note on the German word Kultur explains why both "culture" and "civilization" appear.
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- Author
- Sigmund Freud
- Reading time
- About 80 minutes
- Pages
- 48
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Philosophy
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