Fraser using his bias as a way of lying to himself?
Nope. That he uses the assumptions about what he does and doesn't understand to lie to other people, to keep them from challenging him or asking questions that he doesn't want to answer.
Not that he doesn't lie to himself a little while he does it, but that isn't the focus (at least, not the way that I see his character.)
If he makes a conscious effort to behave and think in a certain way, is it from hope that it will make it so/ him thus?
That's certainly part of it as well--that if he keeps telling himself his father doesn't know him, he won't have to listen. Or that if he convinces himself he's not hurt by Vecchio's leaving, he'll get over it.
Re: Ooh, shiny!
Nope. That he uses the assumptions about what he does and doesn't understand to lie to other people, to keep them from challenging him or asking questions that he doesn't want to answer.
Not that he doesn't lie to himself a little while he does it, but that isn't the focus (at least, not the way that I see his character.)
If he makes a conscious effort to behave and think in a certain way, is it from hope that it will make it so/ him thus?
That's certainly part of it as well--that if he keeps telling himself his father doesn't know him, he won't have to listen. Or that if he convinces himself he's not hurt by Vecchio's leaving, he'll get over it.