Word: delusionals
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For as long as anyone can remember, China has puzzled Americans. U.S. feelings have been a mixture of fascination, affection-and disastrous delusion. During World War II the result was complete military failure in China as well as a legacy of bitterness between China and the U.S. So argues Barbara...
Perhaps Fuller's delusion comes from his viewpoint. In his notebooks, Albert Camus once described the airplane "as one of the elements of modern negation and abstraction. There is no more nature . . . everything disappears. There remains a diagram-a map. Man, in short, looks through the eyes of God...
We have only to catch the despair of Yeats's poem The Circus Animals' Desertion. on the awful burden and awful chance of self-delusion in caring for men's words:
I think that these reactions follow primarily from our failure to recognize the implications of Chekhov's realism. His is a compassionate realism, which goes beyond categories of hope, dread, and anger, to study the reticulating recesses of self-delusion, the vicissitudes of the self-circling, sensitive, introspective mind. The...
Like other anxiety states, stage fright triggers defense mechanisms, but they ultimately fail because the fear "enlarges with the passage of time; the defense cannot alter the fixed moment of the performance." That failure induces a second-phase symptom: "the delusion that the audience is convening for an occasion of...