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In this previously untranslated paper, Deutsch explores the defensive and symptomatic aspects of a form of psychopathology referred to as the fantasy lie. The pathological or fantasy lie is viewed as an attempt to deal with psychological conflict by imposing a new ego state on the outside world. The mechanism, in its effort to substitute fantasies and daydreams for reality, relies on creative and adaptive means to achieve neurotic ends.