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Pseudologia phantastica (n.) is a talent for believing one's own lies — and nothing convinces like a lie its inventor believes, or an evil deed whose righteousness he finds self-evident.
Pseudologia phantastica (n.) is pathological lying, which differs from somnambulistic dissociation only in degree: the liar is carried away by his fantasy like a child lost in a game or an actor in a role, the less conscious the more convincing.
Pseudologia phantastica (n.) is the psychiatric name for the "genius" of irresponsible promises, which Jung saw in Hitler: infectious affect plus the promised fulfilment of one's own selfish wishes.