… 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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tendencies to literalise and scorn science One strong tendency of the vocational schools was to literalise with the scientific information about anatomy and physiology … Another tendency was
the mistake of historical literalism The core mistake of mechanism in psychology is that it literalises functions and actions as discrete moving parts, separated from each other. … the