The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Anthea Bell (Translator), Anthea Bell (Translator), Paul Keegan (Introduction), Sigmund Freud (Author)

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  2002

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  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...

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  1991

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  The simple but convincing explanations of things that are familiar to everybody are explained in this book: the sudden forgetting of proper names, of sets of words, impressions and intentions; childhood and screen memories; bungled actions and other errors; and all those little, significant mistakes of tongue and pen that have come to be called Freudian slips . This volume also contains Strachey's sketch of Freud's life and ideas.

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  2003

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