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SELF‐DECEPTION AND THE EXPERIENCE OF FICTION
Author(s) -
Yanal Robert J.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
ratio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-9329
pISSN - 0034-0006
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2007.00350.x
Subject(s) - parallels , deception , self deception , faith , character (mathematics) , philosophy , psychology , epistemology , psychoanalysis , aesthetics , social psychology , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , engineering
Sartre's commentary on bad faith is the starting‐point for an exploration of self‐deception: what it is not, what it is, and whether it's always wrong. The proffered analysis of self‐deception parallels a certain theory of our experience of fiction. In essence, it is argued that the self‐deceiver creates a kind of fiction in which he is a character, a fiction that he nonetheless believes to be real.