by Anthea Bell (Translator), Anthea Bell (Translator), Sigmund Freud (Author), Paul Keegan (Introduction)
This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase 'Freudian slip'. It also builds up a strong social history of Vienna and the middle-class social milieu of Freud and his patients. Through a series of case histories, some no longer than a few lines long, Freud explores how it is that normal people make slips of speech, writing, reading and remembering in their everyday life, and reveals what it is that they betray about the existence of a sub-text or subliminal motive to our conscious actions. As he explains, most of these slips tend of be of a relatively anodyne nature, but some are a little more sinister, particularly those where pride or thwarted love are concerned...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 04 Jul 2002
ISBN 10: 0141184035
ISBN 13: 9780141184036