{"id":2965,"date":"2023-08-31T08:36:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T07:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2023-08-31T08:36:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T07:36:22","slug":"review-the-future-of-an-illusion-by-sigmund-freud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-future-of-an-illusion-by-sigmund-freud\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Future of an Illusion, by Sigmund Freud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 1927 Sigmund Freud was 71 years old and in failing health when he wrote this short book about religion. The title is a misnomer &#8212; there is hardly anything about the future here at all.  Instead, it offers Freud&#8217;s ideas about religion, including why it exists at all.  Freud is a surprisingly readable author, even for people with only limited knowledge of psychology.  &#8220;It forms no part of the intention of this study to comment on the truth-value of religious teachings,&#8221; he wrote.  &#8220;We are content to recognize that, psychologically speaking, they are illusions.&#8221;  Freud refrained from mentioning in this book the anti-religious campaigns then taking place in the Soviet Union.  But surely he had them in mind when he wrote that &#8220;it is certainly a nonsensical plan to seek to abolish religion by force and at a stroke.  Principally because there is no chance of its succeeding.&#8221;  He was certainly right about that.  Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1927 Sigmund Freud was 71 years old and in failing health when he wrote this short book about religion. The title is a misnomer &#8212; there is hardly anything about the future here at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2967,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/2967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}