According to Freud in The Future of an Illusion, what is an illusion?
(a) A falsehood.
(b) Something that may be true or may come true but probably won't.
(c) Religion.
(d) Art.
(e) A ghost in the sense intended by Ibsen in his play Ghosts.
-- DL
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I would guess all of the above on condition that (b) is accepted as a corrective of (a). The Ibsen must be a red herring as it is merely one instance of the general principle identified in (d). Nevertheless the illusory nature of the "ghosts" is beyond dispute.
-- John Cassidy
Posted by: | January 27, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Religion of course.
Posted by: Old Scratch | February 01, 2008 at 09:54 AM
I am a successful human being and accountant. But it's not all about me. It's about Freud and fraud (illusion). And if the future is an illusion, what's left? A gunman who killed five women in a Chicago clothing store? A teenage American tourist lost in Aruba?
-- Casey D.
Posted by: Casey Donovan | February 04, 2008 at 01:04 AM