PEP | Article - Clinical: Otto Fenichel. 'Zur Ökonomik der Pseudologia phantastica.' ('The Economic Aspect of Pseudologia Phantastica.') Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und Imago, 1939, Bd. XXIV, Heft ½, S. 21–32.

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Abstract

A fairly long extract from a case history is adduced to show that, on the defensive side, the main function of pseudologia phantastica is to ensure a continuance of repression; for it enables the subject to assure himself that, since he can make other people believe things which are not true, the real experiences which he himself fears to remember may not be true either.

PEP | Article - Clinical: Otto Fenichel. 'Zur Ökonomik der Pseudologia phantastica.' ('The Economic Aspect of Pseudologia Phantastica.') Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und Imago, 1939, Bd. XXIV, Heft ½, S. 21–32. - S., A.