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Arday's Final Self-Delusion

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Arday's Final Self-Delusion
The Atlantic
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Jason Arday’s Final Self-Delusion
In the Henrik Ibsen play The Wild Duck, Dr. Relling dispenses a drug that soothes the most profound self-loathing: livsløgn, a “life-lie,” a form of grandiose self-delusion that lets the pathetic figures who take it believe that they are geniuses and noble romantics. The life-lie, it turns out, is a hell of a drug—perh