ABSTRACT
Shortly after the publication of Sigmund Freud's "The Future of an Illusion" (1927), the poet T. S. Eliot (1929) gave it a negative review, emphatically stating, "it has little to do with the past or the present of religion, and nothing, so far as I can see, with its future" (p. 350). Eliot could not have been more mistaken. Indeed, a case can be made that no single thinker—not Marx, not Gandhi, not Billy Graham, not Pope John XXIII—has had a greater impact on the 20th century understanding of religion than Freud.
