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Diaspora Chic ultimately fails not because it promotes national self-destruction--a little less Anglo-conformity won't doom us--but because it promotes national self-deception.
It is a deeply demoralizing experience for anyone who lacks adequate powers of self-deception and photo approval.
One fault, though, is that "this supposed autobiography is missing what often makes an autobiography great: the memoirist's obvious self-deception"(Ken Kalfus, the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here to read the first chapter.)
He has a "character of infinite deception and self-deception."
He wanted psychoanalysis to be a science of self-deception, a proof against the old pieties.