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‖ pseudologia fantastica Psychol.|sjuːdəʊˈləʊdʒɪə fænˈtæstɪkə| Also pseudologia phantastica. [mod.L., ad. Gr. ψευδολογία falsehood + Gr. fem. ϕανταστική or med.Lat. fem. phantastica imaginary.] A condition, often associated with other abnormal traits, in which a person fabricates stories about himself in order to inflate his importance but readily changes or abandons them when challenged. Also ellipt. as pseudologia.
1909Westm. Hospital Rep. XVI. 68 There are some cases of moral imbecility in which this [lying] is the chief..feature, yet so pronounced that it has been looked upon by some as a distinct disease, and has been given a name all to itself: ‘Pseudologia Fantastica’. 1917C. E. Long tr. Jung's Coll. Papers Analytical Psychol. i. 71 Our case has another analogy with pseudologia phantastica: The development of the phantasies during the attacks. 1934Owen & Zilboorg tr. Fenichel's Outl. Clin. Psychoanal. xi. 443 The most remarkable feature in pseudologia is that the patient really is speaking the truth..and that unwittingly the phantastic lies are distorted expressions of his repressed infantile sexual history. 1949Horizon Mar. 216 A hysteric, suffering from pseudologia phantastica. 1960I. Bennett Delinquent & Neurotic Children iii. 87 Imaginative or pathological lying (pseudologia fantastica). |