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It seems that during the post-modern period psychoanalysis essentially emphasised the interactive and exploratory aspects of analysis, in which construction is essentially and invention of the past. These alterations threaten, however, to minimise both the importance of historical reality and the question of conceptual and methodological differences between truth, falsehood and the conjectural, this latter question being a major preoccupation both in Freud's time and during the first half of the 20th century. Reference to the traumatic dimension (often relating to and associated with a historic or prehistoric past) was at the same time emphasised in so far as the latter was deemed to constitute an extremely important category both in human experience and in the theories that served to explain the latter. My paper aims to underline and reconsider the level at which psychoanalytical epistemology can be considered to coincide with the epistemology of history and historiography.