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