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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF EVERYDAY LIFE
But there is one thing
which the severest and the mildest cases all have in common,
and which is equally found
in parapraxes and chance actions: the phenomena can be
traced back to incompletely
suppressed psychical material, which, although pushed
away by consciousness, has
nevertheless not been robbed of all capacity for expressing
itself.
Sigmund Freud, 1904
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For Freud, daily
life was filled with examples of how wishes and ideas that
we would rather not face find some form of expression. They escape
our conscious control
and emerge in our jokes, habits, and seemingly “accidental” gestures.
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Parapraxes
are slips of the
tongue, now, of course, commonly called “Freudian slips.”
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