title: [Sense and counter-sense--on the deconstruction of histories].
abstract: Today historiography (the writing of stories) presented as nothing but a search for truth merits the charge of naiveté. Since Freud we must understand any story told about life as a rationalization, that is, as a strategy of conducting one's life. The author argues the proposition that historiography can only fulfill its function of giving sense to life if it simultaneously admits its deconstruction, its counter-sense.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Böhme
mesh_terms: D004325:Dreams; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006663:Historiography; D006801:Humans; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory
vernacular_title: Sinn und Gegensinn--über die Dekonstruktion von Geschichten.