The core mistake of mechanism in psychology is that it literalises 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.
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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,
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
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: