Inez’s Manifestation Of Self-Deception

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ng as truth a pleasing untruth” (K 301). In self-deception, one is hiding the truth from oneself. By this explanation, a system of duality between deceiver and deceived does not exist. Sartre suggests that one must know the truth in order to hide it, not at different moments, but at the exact same time. Any break between knowing and deceiving allows for a system of duality. “That which affects itself with self-deception must be conscious (of) its self-deception since the being of consciousness is consciousness of being” (K 302). Therefore we can infer that we must know of our self-deception for one minutia and consciously deceive ourselves, then almost instantaneously revert back to our motives as cynical or good faith without the slightest hint of change in motive.
If we look at Freudian psychoanalysis, we may incorporate a “censor” between the Id and the Ego. This allows for a concept of duality in self-deception. The censor governs what is passed from the Id to the Ego. It alone “can comprehend the questions or revelations of the psychoanalyst as approaching more or less near to the real drives which it strives to repress—it alone because it alone knows what it is repressing… it must choose and in order to choose must be aware of...