Historical and Psychological Authenticity.

Psychoanal Rev

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Published: December 2024

In this reflection the author examines the question of authenticity in the culture and in his own experience as a historian and psychoanalyst. His vantage points are death and totalism, the nature of facts, and the spiritual and psychological access to truth.

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