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After Beyond Comes the Future: Freud's Absurdist Theatre of Reason (Sigmund Freud)

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  • Title: After Beyond Comes the Future: Freud's Absurdist Theatre of Reason (Sigmund Freud)
  • Author : English Studies in Canada
  • Release Date : January 01, 2006
  • Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 220 KB

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IN THE SPRING OF 1927 FREUD BEGAN WORK on the Future The Future of an Illusion, finished it in September, and published it in November. It is by all accounts a slight book, unoriginal in its condemnation of religion and not very well strung together conceptually. It is also considered one of the least Freudian of all of Freud's works, for in it Freud mounts an uncharacteristically optimistic defence of Logos, Greek god of Reason, against the forces that make religion possible, namely biological instinct, infantilism, and anxiety about the external world. This is certainly not the grumpy, pessimistic, tragic Freud we find almost everywhere else in his work, including three years later in Civilization and Its Discontents. This is Freud as Enlightenment philosopher, uncompromising defender of rationality and scientific progress. Consequently, Freud's own harsh assessment of the book comes as no surprise. In October Of 1927, referring to the advance proofs of his manuscript, Freud admitted to Sandor Ferenczi that The Future "already strikes me as childish, I basically think differently, consider this work analytically frail and insufficient as a confession" (Correspondence 326). This is quite a litany of complaints, even fatal complaints--so much so that we might ask why Freud wrote the book and then, more curiously, bothered to publish it. After all, Freud had in the recent past set aside works that failed to meet his standards.


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