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Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

— Karen Horney Our Inner Conflicts (1945)

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A person so shut out from every possibility of happiness would have to be a veritable angel if he did not feel hatred toward a world he cannot belong to.

The Neurotic Personality of Our Time (1937)

It is amazing how obtuse otherwise intelligent patients can become when it is a matter of seeing the inevitability of cause and effect in psychic matters.

Neurosis and Human Growth (1950)

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