Title: On Freud's "The future of an illusion" /
Authors: Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.; O'Neil, Mary Kay.; Akhtar, Salman, 1946 July 31-; International Psycho-Analytical Association
Publisher: Karnac ; International Psychoanalytical Association,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Freud, Sigmund.; Freud, Sigmund,; Religion and Psychology; Freudian Theory; Psychology, Religious.; Religion; Psychotherapy.
Contents: Introduction / Salman Akhtar -- Part I. The future of an illusion (1927c) / Sigmund Freud -- Part II. Discussion of The future of an illusion. Deconstructing Freud's The future of an illusion : eight conceptual strands / Ethel Spector Person -- The illusion of a future : the rhetoric of Freud's critique of religious belief / Jonathan Lear -- The past of an illusion : an evolutionary perspective on religious belief / J. Anderson Thomson, Jr. -- Religious fundamentalism and violence / Vamik D. Volkan -- The morality of an "oppressed group" / George A. Awad -- Illusion, disillusion, and delusion : war and faith in the Andes / Moisés Lemlij -- Freud's omission of the maternal in God : was he disillusioned with mothers? / Jennifer Bonovitz -- Three archaic contributions to the religious instinct : awe, mysticism, and apocalypse / Mortimer Ostow -- Re-reading Freud on religion in Hindu India / Sudhir Kakar -- How belief in God affects my clinical work / Neville Symington -- Epilogue / Mary Kay O'Neil.