ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the analysis of honesty. Honesty seems to be something very nearly fundamental to human nature. The analysis proceeds, and yet a very great amount of work has to be done before the disillusionment can be exactly described in words. Although there is no short-cut to this result it is interesting to record individual results as they come. The complaint often is that the loved and idealised mother trained the child to be dishonest. No doubt, what makes the parental action effective is the infant s guilt over the destructive elements of the fantasy material. In regard to conscious feelings, one that never succeeds, to the possession of a secret fantasy world, to a sense of unreality about fantasy and to a repudiation of fantasy or an inability to accept ownership of whatever fantasy material intrudes itself.
