Positive Illusions

This is one of the new terms I learned recently. I really liked it... "Positive Illusion" :) Anyway; a friend of mine gave me some academic articles & papers about the topic but as they are really academic generally it is hard to understand them... But, in one of the articles I found this:

Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joy inclined,
Lawless, winged, and unconfined,
And breaks all chains from every mind.
(William Blake, 1791)

Anyway, the main reason for this posting was to post the four line above; but soon I will be posting much more about positive illusions, I still am researching... ;)
The article I read these lines is: The Benefits of Positive Illusions: Idealization and the Construction of Satisfaction in Close Relationships by Sandra L. Murray, John G Holmes and Dale W. Griffin...

Posted by Fikirbaz at January 21, 2004 07:44 PM

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