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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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Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939. As a writer and doctor he remains one of the informing voices of the twentieth century.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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This is a fascinating book. Freud talks about how the mistakes we make give clues about our subconscious thoughts and motives; he describes the different types of errors we make and what they say about us, giving many interesting examples of each type, including slips of the tongue and forgetting. It is written in a simple style, and the use of examples really helps get the point across- overall a great book
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The inconsequential events of everyday life - forgetting names, accidents, slips of the tongue - are given Freud's psychoanalytic treatment in this volume. Freud displays his interpretive genius here more than in any other of his works (even more so than in his 'Interpretation of Dreams', the book most revered by Freud himself and his orthodox followers). Showing a keen eye for spotting the pervasive influence of the omnipotent unconcious, Freud gathers examples from his life (which are of endless fascination with those interested in his life as well as his theories) and in literature in which repressed unconcious desires find expression in the contrivences of everyday life. This book remains for me possibly the most concise, thorough and easy-going introduction to the writings of Sigmund Freud.
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I had to read this book as it is required reading of the hypnotherapy course that I am following. Had I not been forced to read it I would not have got past the first chapter. Freud gives seemingly endless examples of how slips of the tongue, pen, etc. reveal our inner thoughts and desires. Perhaps these were interesting and amusing a hundred years ago, but I found them exceedingly tiresome. To give one example of each type of parapraxis would have been sufficient, but Freud gives many of each and then goes into an extremely detailed explanation of what he believes was the motive behind the slip.
Personally I found some of the explanations to be contrived and all it proved to me was that if you look hard enough and long enough for a hidden motive you will find one. What Freud seemed incapable of accepting was that we are fallible and sometimes we simply make mistakes, or have a failure of memory, without any hidden motive.
Personally I found some of the explanations to be contrived and all it proved to me was that if you look hard enough and long enough for a hidden motive you will find one. What Freud seemed incapable of accepting was that we are fallible and sometimes we simply make mistakes, or have a failure of memory, without any hidden motive.
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