<p>On this episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Freud's <em>Future of an Illusion</em>, a text that would become overshadowed by his subsequent publication, <em>Civilization and Its Discontents</em>. The hosts discuss the relationship between the two texts--paying close attention to how the drive becomes figured and then reconfigured in the latter text--but are careful to stamp out where <em>Illusion</em> departs in focus and in substance from one Freud's most well-known works. The hosts also work through Freud’s thoughts on religion in <em>Illusion</em> and compare it against his later thoughts in <em>Moses and Monotheism</em> and more recent work on psychoanalysis and religion (specifically when compared to Rick Boothby’s <em>Embracing the Void</em>). </p>
