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The future of an illusion

Sigmund Freud (Author), James Strachey (Editor, Translator), Peter Gay (Writer of introduction)
This is Freud's scientific analysis of religion. Religion, along with government and social, moral and ethical codes, or, civilization act as removing man from his true instinctual and destructive nature into a civil society. Religion is a necessary illusion derived from men's wishes

Print Book, English, 1989
W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1989