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
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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
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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:
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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,
One strong tendency of the vocational schools was to literalize with the scientific information about anatomy and physiology … Another tendency was
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:
I define my writing style as “healing fiction.” It’s not merely because I gather most of the paragraphs from the transformative journaling process,