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A Naïve Optimism: Man and Religion in Freud's The Future of an Illusion

This analytical essay disagrees with the central claims of Sigmund Freud's The Future of an Illusion. Using historical examples of revolutions that sought to displace religion (the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution), the student takes a pessimistic view of human nature to argue that religion provides a moral order that man cannot maintain on his own.
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Bridget's feedback:

"You've written a thorough and thoughtful piece that engages with the text and its ideas. It's good to see the use of sources and citations in discussing the historical examples, as this develops ethos by showing responsibility, but I think this paper can engage with more specific critical and academic sources in making the point. Your writing and discussion is strong, and I think you can level up the discussion overall by expanding your research in this regard. On a related note, I encourage you to take more advantage of outside critical commentary or other schools of thought in the first pages of your response to Freud, much of which is pretty generalized before you head into the history sections. For example, "Humanity is flawed. It cannot be trusted to..."; while the following set of examples sets out to explore this, immediately explaining what point of view or school of thought (Hobbes?) these claims align with will help establish the discussion beyond personal belief."

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