SELF-DECEPTION AND THE EXPERIENCE OF FICTION

Author: Yanal, Robert J.

Source: Ratio, Volume 20, Number 1, March 2007 , pp. 108-121(14)

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Abstract:

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.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2007.00350.x

Affiliations: 1: Wayne State UniversityDetroit, Michigan, 48202 USA, Email: R.Yanal@wayne.edu

Publication date: 2007-03-01