Inside the palace he encounters a man who asks Gylfi's name and so king Gylfi introduces himself as Gangleri.

Atë, ancient Greek for " ruin, folly, delusion ," is the action performed by the hero or heroine, usually because of his or her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his or her death or downfall.

Foucault then interprets this self-government as modern society conception of a top-down hierarchy, creating the delusion of a sovereign who rules in perpetual in the United Kingdom for example, this system still exists today through the ancient and legal maxim the king never dies, according to Sir William Blackstone, the king survives in his successor and the right of the crown vests, eo instanti upon his heirs.

" Thought-transference " ( telepathy ) also gets a mention as part of an elaborate and mistaken rationalization for the Queen's " delusion " that she comes from ancient Babylon.

The danger lay in the American delusion that nuclear deterrence was enough.

Perhaps this was reality and Dale Nelson, the actor, was delusion ; ;

: Nimzovich suffered from the delusion that he was unappreciated and that the reason was malice.

Some taught that existence was a snare and a delusion, that the world, the flesh, and the devil existed only to tempt weak humankind away from God.

Joseph concluded that "… the manner in which he was treated for upwards of sixteen years could not but have confirmed him in the delusion that the preservation of his own person was the only thing of importance.

He convinced Hitler that he had Edward's support ; but this, like his belief that he had impressed British society, was a tragic delusion.

Skinner's behaviourist idea was strongly attacked by Noam Chomsky in a review article in 1959, calling it " largely mythology " and a " serious delusion ".

At the beginning of the 17th century witchcraft was prosecuted by James I of England, who regarded " warwoolfes " as victims of delusion induced by " a natural superabundance of melancholic ".

In the 1920s, Raeder as one of the authors of the official history of the German Navy in World War I, he sided with Tirpitz against the Jeune École-inspired theories of Wegener, arguing that everything that his mentor Tirpitz did was correct, and dismissed the strategy of guerre de course as a “ dangerous delusion ”.

" A year later in the Senate ( January 10, 1838 ), Calhoun repeated this defense of slavery as a " positive good ": " Many in the South once believed that it was a moral and political evil ; that folly and delusion are gone ; we see it now in its true light, and regard it as the most safe and stable basis for free institutions in the world.

Further contention was caused by the hiring of surrealist artist Salvador Dalí to conceive certain scenes of mental delusion.

Madeline Bassett and Honoria Glossop suffer from a similar delusion, though in their cases Bertie was attempting to plead the case of a friend ( Gussie Fink-Nottle and Bingo Little respectively ) but was misinterpreted as confessing his own love.

Plutarch then anonymously relates that Marius, having gone into a fit of passion in which he announced a delusion that he was in command of the Mithridatic War, began to act as he would have on the field of battle ; finally, ever an ambitious man, Marius lamented, on his death bed, that he had not achieved all of which he was capable, despite his having acquired great wealth and having been chosen consul more times than any man before him.

Although this type of delusion is less common now, it was particularly widespread in the days before state support.

This use of fiction to decrease the malleability of a delusion was employed in a joint project by science-fiction author Philip Jose Farmer and Yale psychiatrist A. James Giannini.

About 1840 a mass delusion took over the local inhabitants, and they came to believe that a treasure of gold and jewels was buried within the town.

* The assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley, Jr. was reported to have been driven by an erotomanic delusion to Jodie Foster.

Fox was the subject of the front piece of John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer-prize winning book " Profiles in Courage ", " He well knows what snares are spread about his path, from personal animosity … and possibly from popular delusion.

" The patient was then offered food which he ate eagerly and gradually " gained strength, got rid of his delusion, and was completely cured.

Example: The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew ; it was ruled by delusion.

Atë, Greek for ' ruin, folly, delusion ', is the action performed by the hero, usually because of his / her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his / her death or downfall.

Theoretically, as seen below, a jamais vu feeling in a sufferer of a delirious disorder or intoxication could result in a delirious explanation of it, such as in the Capgras delusion, in which the patient takes a person known by him or her for a false double or impostor.

) However, Joan and Eunice decide that this possible explanation is irrelevant, and near the end of the book, a third personality, that of Joan's new husband, joins them by means that can only be explained via delusion, religion or mysticism, not science.

Seduced as you have been, my fellow countrymen by the delusion theories and misrepresentation of ambitious, deluded & designing men, I call upon you in the language of truth, and with the feelings of a Father to retrace your steps.

In other cases, the delusion may be assumed to be false by a doctor or psychiatrist assessing the belief, because it seems to be unlikely, bizarre or held with excessive conviction.

Arguing in favor of rule by commoners rather than elistists he wrote: " The people can never mean to do anything that will not advance the public good, and it is only under momentary delusion that they can act wrong.

No doubt he believes they are labouring under some massive mind-control delusion engineered by the CIA.

The doctrine which The United Irishman was to follow was stated as follows: " that the Irish people had a distinct and indefeasible right to their country, and to all the moral and material wealth and resources thereof, to possess, to govern the same, for their own use, maintenance, comfort and honour, as a distinct Sovereign State ; that it was within their power and their manifest duty to make good and exercise that right ; that the life of one peasant was as precious as the life of one nobleman or gentleman ; that the property of the farmers and labourers of Ireland was as sacred as the property of all the noblemen and gentlemen in Ireland, and also immeasurably more valuable ; that the Tenant Right custom should be extended to all Ulster, and adopted and enforced by common consent in the other three provinces ; that every man who paid taxes should have an equal voice with every other man in the government of the State and the outlay of those taxes ; that no man at present had any ' legal ' rights or claim to the protection of any law and that all ' legal ' and constitutional agitation in Ireland was a delusion ; that every freeman, and every man who desired to become free, ought to have arms, and to practise the use of them ; that no ' combination of classes ' in Ireland was desirable, just, or possible save on the terms of the rights of the industrious classes being acknowledged and secured ; and that no good thing could come from the English Parliament or the English Government ".

" Tathagatagarbha thought, seeking to avoid the conclusion that genuine evil can arise from the pure tathagatagarbha, portrays mental defilements as insubstantial illusions produced by delusion.

In another version of the events, the murderer covered all political causes up and claimed, that he was motivated by jealousy over his failed attachment to the female student Sylvia Borowicka, leading to a paranoid delusion about Schlick as his rival and persecutor.

" Austin argues that Ayer fails to understand the proper function of such words as " illusion ", " delusion ", " hallucination ", " looks ", " appears " and " seems ", and uses them instead in a " special way ... invented by philosophers.

The historian David Sturdy has cautioned about regarding the fyrd as a precursor to a modern national army composed of all ranks of society, describing it as a " ridiculous fantasy ": The persistent old belief that peasants and small farmers gathered to form a national army or fyrd is a strange delusion dreamt up by antiquarians in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries to justify universal military conscription.

Lowell had high hopes for his performance but was overshadowed by the other notables presenting works that day, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. " I did not make the hit I expected ," he wrote, " and am ashamed at having been tempted again to think I could write poetry, a delusion from which I have been tolerably free these dozen years.

The historian David Sturdy has cautioned about regarding the fyrd as a precursor to a modern national army composed of all ranks of society, describing it as a " ridiculous fantasy ": The persistent old belief that peasants and small farmers gathered to form a national army or fyrd is a strange delusion dreamt up by antiquarians in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries to justify universal military conscription.

Jinul further believed that the true nature of all people is unchanging and that their minds are ultimately numinous and marked by awareness, even when seemingly in a state of delusion.

Essentially Shinran said that because we are all defiled by greed, hatred and delusion, we have no chance of gaining enlightenment by ourselves.

* Grandiose Religious delusion: the belief that the affected person is a god, or chosen to act as a god.