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FREUD, SIGMUND. Die Zukunft einer Illusion [“The Future of an Illusion.”] FIRST EDITION. pp. 91 +(+ 3 pp. ads). Original yellow printed boards, scuffed, spine sunned. 8vo. Vienna. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1927.     In Die Zukunft einer Illusion the founder of psychoanalysis discusses religion's origins, development, and future.     “Freud [here] enumerated the human need that lead people to construct religious beliefs, and addressed the question of whether humanity could learn to endure the hardships of life without recourse to the comfort of religion - a question that he hoped might one day be answered in the affirmative” (Norman Library 57).