Mental
Illness, Self Deception and Differing Views of Reality
G. Shean |
This
paper illustrates how self deception can be understood as constructions
intended to preserve the status quo of our sense of identity. Excerpts
from interviews with delusional individuals and the statements of
public figures are presented to illustrate how frequently our statements,
logical and illogical, mirror Sartre's categories of self deception.
It is suggested that the different patterns and degrees of self-deception
ilustrated in this paper fall into a single spectrum.
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