The Future of an Illusion
| Author | Sigmund Freud |
|---|---|
| Original title | Die Zukunft einer Illusion |
| Translator | (1) W.D. Robson-Scott, (2) James Strachey |
| Subject | Religion |
| Publisher | (1) Hogarth Press, London (2) W. W. Norton & Company |
Publication date | 1927 |
Published in English | (1) 1928 (2) 1989 |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 978-0-393-00831-9 |
| OCLC | 20479722 |
The Future of an Illusion (German: Die Zukunft einer Illusion) is a 1927 work by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which Freud discusses religion's origins, development, and its future. He provides a psychoanalysis of religion as a false belief system.