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Presentism is the historical fallacy of reading the values or knowledge of the present into the past. However, in his 2015 The Capitalist Unconscious (page 25), Samo Tomšič notes that Sigmund Freud described history as an assembly of deformations, rewritings and conflicts rather than an objective account.

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  • Presentism is the historical fallacy of reading the values or knowledge of the present into the past. However, in his 2015 The Capitalist Unconscious (page 25), Samo Tomšič notes that Sigmund Freud described history as an assembly of deformations, rewritings and conflicts rather than an objective account.
  • Presentism is the application of present-day values and standards to earlier eras. It is commonly used to unfairly pass judgment on historical figures.
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  • Presentism is the historical fallacy of reading the values or knowledge of the present into the past. However, in his 2015 The Capitalist Unconscious (page 25), Samo Tomšič notes that Sigmund Freud described history as an assembly of deformations, rewritings and conflicts rather than an objective account.
  • Presentism is the application of present-day values and standards to earlier eras. It is commonly used to unfairly pass judgment on historical figures.
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