factual history claims literal truth

• … factual history, a true account or knowledge about the “succession of events through which anything passes … a lie when it claims literal truth. Early on in the taking down of case histories, Freud found that he was not recording a true account of historical events, but fantasies of events as if they had actually happened
• cannot claim that what is told in the tellings is a true account of the succession of events through which a thing has passed
• presentation of literal statements transposed to where they cannot be controverted or verified, is a fiction in the philosophical sense

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1. the mistake of historical literalism

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2. tendencies to literalise and scorn science

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3. a perspective on psychological work

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