The Future of an Illusion

The Future of an Illusion
AuthorSigmund Freud
Original titleDie Zukunft einer Illusion
Translator(1) W.D. Robson-Scott, (2) James Strachey
SubjectReligion
Publisher(1) Hogarth Press, London
(2) W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
1927
Published in English
(1) 1928
(2) 1989
Media typePrint
ISBN978-0-393-00831-9
OCLC20479722

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.