the mistake of historical literalism

• The core mistake of mechanism in psychology is that it literalizes functions and actions as discrete moving parts, separated from each other. … the mistake of historical literalism, that what is written in a history is what actually happened, a report of the facts, a verifiable account of actual events as they actually were … placing history all on one side and fiction all on the other … We can be as deluded about ourselves as about the world’s facts.
  
• factual history claims literal truth

linked mentions for "the mistake of historical literalism":

1. tendencies to literalise and scorn science

   One strong tendency of the vocational schools was to literalize with the scientific information about anatomy and physiology … Another tendency was

2. a perspective on psychological work

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3. history symptom-making of the psyche

   event becomes an experience, moves from outer to inner, is made into soul, when it goes through a psychological process … Plato gave us main ones:

4. writing healing fiction

   I define my writing style as “healing fiction.” It’s not merely because I gather most of the paragraphs from the transformative journaling process,