On Freud's "The Future of an Illusion"

ISBN-13: 9780367106164 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 318 str.

Mary Kay O'Neil; Salman Akhtar

Opis

Reveals the author's reflections about religion as well as his hope that in the future science will go beyond religion, and reason will replace faith in God. This title considers Freudian ideas and their implications, while focusing on the contradictions and gaps in author's proposals.

Spis treści

Contemporary Freud , Introduction , The Future of an Illusion (1927c) , The Future Of An Illusion , Discussion of The Future of an Illusion , Deconstructing Freud’s The Future of an Illusion , The illusion of a future , The past of an illusion , Religious fundamentalism and violence , The morality of an “oppressed group” , Illusion, disillusion, and delusion , Freud’s omission of the maternal in God , Three archaic contributions to the religious instinct , Re-reading Freud on religion in Hindu India , How belief in God affects my clinical work , Epilogue

O autorze

Salman Akhtar