Freudian Slips

Many of us are familiar with the concept of parapexes , but are simply unfamiliar with the technical name given to them by Freud. The concept is so common that it was the focus of one of his most popular works, "Psychopathology of Everyday Life." Freud would have never guessed that parapraxes would become a concept so popular that they would be given his namesake: Freudian Slips. Freud argued that Freudian Slips were those things that …

…is bumping into someone, because this allows for the people to enter into each other's personal space. Accidents, which cause the person to injure him or herself, are often either to bring upon sympathy and attention, and accidents, which hurt another, are often subconscious "actings out" of hostility. Freud also links the breaking of objects, by dropping them and such, to repression and the desire to have such objects removed from one's life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**