On Freud’s “The Future of Illusion” – Edited by Mary Kay O’Neil and Salman Akhtar

The Future of an Illusion. -Sigmund Freud — 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.

First Published in 2009 by

Karmac Books

London