Along with the "Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, " the present text remains one of Freud's most widely read. It is filled with anecdotes, many of them quite amusing, and virtually bereft of difficult technical terminology. And Freud put himself on the line: numerous acts of willful forgetting or "inexplicable" mistakes are recounted from his personal experience. None of such actions can be called truly accidental, or uncaused: that is the real lesson of the "Psychopathology."
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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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In the 1898 volume of the Monatsschrift fur Psychiatrie und Neurologie I published under the title of "The Psychical Mechanism of Forgetfulness' [Freud, 1898b] a short paper the substance of which I shall recapitulate here and take as the starting-point for more extensive discussions. Read the first page
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In the 1898 volume of the Monatsschrift fur Psychiatrie und Neurologie I published under the title of "The Psychical Mechanism of Forgetfulness' [Freud, 1898b] a short paper the substance of which I shall recapitulate here and take as the starting-point for more extensive discussions. Read the first page
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By S. P. Ramsey
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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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By Sami
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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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