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The Psychology of Self-Deception

Neel Burton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2019 | 2nd Revised edition
Acheron Press (Verlag)
978-0-9929127-9-6 (ISBN)

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How and why do we deceive ourselves? How does this impact
on us and those around us? And what, if anything, can we do about it?
This book, now in its second edition, is a stand-alone sequel and companion piece to 'The Art of
Failure', which explores what it means to be successful, and how, if at
all, true success can be achieved.

Above
all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own
lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around
him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect
he ceases to love... Fyodor Dostoevsky

Self-deception is common and universal, and the cause of most human tragedies.
Of course, the science of self-deception can help us to live better and get
more out of life. But it can also cast a murky light on human nature and the
human condition, for example, on such exclusively human phenomena as anger,
depression, fear, pity, pride, dream making, love making, and god making, not
to forget age-old philosophical problems such as selfhood, virtue, happiness,
and the good life. Nothing, in the end, could possibly be more important.

Part
I: Abstraction

1.
Denial

2.
Repression

3.
Anger

4.
Dissociation

5.
Intellectualization

6.
Rationalization

7.
Positive illusions

8.
The manic defence

9.
Depression

Part
II: Transformation

10.
Displacement

11.
Scapegoating

12.
Somatization

13.
Reaction formation

14.
Stockholm syndrome

15.
Minimization and exaggeration

16.
Symbolization and dream interpretation

17.
Reification and the self

Part
IIIA: Evasion through fraud or fantasy

18.
Vagueness

19.
Inauthenticity

20.
Reconstruction of reality

21.
Confabulation

22.
Splitting

23.
Dehumanization

24.
Daydreaming

25.
Regression

Part
IIIB: Evasion through people or the world

26.
Socialization

27.
Garrulousness

28.
Dramatization

29.
Grandiosity

30.
Humour

31.
Asceticism

32.
Sublimation

33.
Altruism

34.
Anticipation

35.
Fear and anxiety

Part
IV: Projection

36.
Projection

37.
Projective identification

38.
Idealization

39.
Devaluation

40.
Identification

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	144 x 214 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
ISBN-10	0-9929127-9-2 / 0992912792
ISBN-13	978-0-9929127-9-6 / 9780992912796
Zustand	Neuware