Freud collects examples of slips of the tongue, forgotten names, misread words, lost objects and bungled actions, and argues that these are not random accidents. Each, he says, can be traced to a repressed wish or an emotion pressing against ordinary attention. Drawing on his own errors, his patients' and anecdotes from literature, he shows how a name forgotten in a conversation can point to a thought the speaker wanted to avoid, and how apparent coincidences can reveal hidden concerns.
It is an accessible entry to Freud because the examples are everyday and easy to test against your own experience. Readers curious about the origin of the term Freudian slip, or about how psychoanalysis moved from the clinic to ordinary life, will find it there.
Deep and inward-looking; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Empathetic Explorer. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
- ISBN
- 9783596104383
- Language
- DE
