Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the
standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century
intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his
contemporaries. In "Mass Psychology and Analysis of the 'I'" he
explores the notion of 'mass-psychology' - his findings would prove
all too prophetic in the years that followed. Writings such as "A
Religious Experience" and "The Future of an Illusion" continue
earlier work on the essential savagery of the civilized mind, and
"Moses the Man" and "Monotheistic Religion" excavates the roots of
religion and racism, which he concludes are inextricably
intertwined. This remarkable collection reveals Freud not only at
his most radically pessimistic, but also at his most personally
courageous - engaging with his own adherences, his own antecedents,
his own identity.
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