The contemporary literature on self-deception was born out of Jean-Paul Sartre s work on bad faith lying to oneself. As time has progressed, the conception of self-deception has moved further and further away from Sartre s conception of bad faith. In Self-Deception s Puzzles and Processes: A Return to a Sartrean View, Jason Kido Lopez argues that this departure is a mistake and that we should return to thinking about self-deception in a Sartrean fashion, in which we are self-deceived when we intentionally use the strategies and methods of interpersonal deception on ourselves. Since literally...