Résumé
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The Future of an Illusion is a classic study of religion, focusing on its unconscious facet - and of the unconscious, focusing on in its religious facet. Freud's historic work was published in 1927. Coming after Totem and Taboo and some clinical writings about religious symptoms, it challenged religion - head on - in its cultural and unconscious dimension: an authentic 'self-presentation' by Freud in the face of religion. From the genealogy of 'religious representations', it concludes that they are 'illusions, fulfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind'. The origin of the need for religion is the distress whose source - still robust - lies in the 'paternal complex' as well as infantile dependence - which give birth to religion, linked to the 'grandiose relief' of anxiety. But beyond the psychological reduction of religious belief, this text raises the question of the inclusion of the unconscious in religious desire in its relation with the Other, engaging the destiny of culture and the 'future of mankind'. This 'destroyer of illusions', as Romain Rolland calls Freud, measures that this indestructible illusion has in fact a promising future. Nevertheless, with his characteristic concern for veracity, he poses the radical question of a 'reform' of the relation between religion and culture and poses science, beyond all 'scientism', as an alternative instance, as a desire for the real. This critical edition, the first of this manifesto/text, strives to confer all its importance to the work. Here, the text is retranslated and introduced in such a way as to clearly identify its argumentation, sources and psychoanalytical and anthropological challenges. It facilitates the reading and rereading of a book that's full of surprises and unexpected directions. A corpus of historical and critical notes sheds light on the allusions present, one by one. Moreover, a detailed glossary helps the readers, whether Germanist or not, to become familiar with the functioning of the language which supports Freudian thought and expression.
L'auteur - Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), neurologue viennois, il est le principal théoricien de la psychanalyse. Son amitié avec Wilhelm Fliess, sa collaboration avec Josef Breuer, l'influence de Jean-Martin Charcot (médecin français) et des théories sur l'hypnose de l'École de la Salpêtrière (Paris) vont le conduire à repenser les processus et instances psychiques, et en premier lieu les concepts d'inconscient, de rêve et de névrose puis à proposer une technique de thérapie, la cure psychanalytique. Ses Oeuvres complètes ont été publiées aux Presses Universitaires de France en vingt volumes (1989-2014).
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Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Sigmund Freud |
Parution | 18/10/2012 |
Format | 13.4 x 21.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 490g |
EAN13 | 9782204097925 |
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