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On Freud's "The Future of an Illusion" (Paperback, New)
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On Freud's "The Future of an Illusion" (Paperback, New)
Series: The International Psychoanalytical Association Contemporary Freud Turning Points and Critical Issues Series
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"The question whether God is a subject for psychoanalysis is
something that must be tackled at the very outset of our
enterprise. However as we pay attention to it, the question reveals
itself to be the product of a tension that exists between those who
believe in the existence of God and those who do not. Sigmund
Freud, by the very act of making God a subject of metapsychological
deconstruction, took ... a resolutely atheistic position...the
Illusion monograph is a literary battlefield where Freud, the
Atheist is involved in a bloody combat with Freud, the Believer His
pupils and followers adhered religiously to the arguments and
declarations he made in The Future of Illusion.The contributors to
this book are robust atheists as well as firm believers. There are
also those who seem decidedly uncommitted. They come from different
regions of the world, represent different ethno-religious
backgrounds, and speak in different psychoanalytic tongues. The
questions they raise largely pertain to what literal and
metaphorical, conscious and unconscious, adaptive and maladaptive,
self-soothing and masochistic, and generous and sadistic uses
belief in God can be, has been, and is still being put to. Clearly,
Freud s intrapsychic debate on whether God exists or not has
mushroomed into concerns of much larger scope. Knowing his
unflappable willingness to learn, grow, and change his opinions, it
is safe to assume that this smorgasbord of conceptual diversity
would have been welcomed by Freud, even if he chose to use it for
arguing even more forcefully for his position " -- Taken from the
Introduction by Salman Akhtar"
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