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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

by Sigmund Freud

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Freud’s case for meaning in everyday mistakes

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Freud’s case for meaning in everyday mistakes

Freud uses forgotten names, verbal slips, muddled recollections, and unintended actions as material for psychoanalytic interpretation. Opening from his own failure to recall an Italian painter’s name and moving through a range of small social errors, the book presents these incidents as possible traces of concealed wishes, anxieties, and fantasies. The examples also place psychoanalytic thinking within the social pressures and repressions Freud associated with Viennese life in his era. This edition offers a compact route into how Freud applied his theories not only to dramatic symptoms but to the ordinary missteps of daily experience.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers seeking an introduction to psychoanalytic ideas through concrete examples
  • Students of psychology, psychoanalysis, or Freud’s work
  • Readers interested in memory, speech errors, and unconscious motivation

Themes

The unconsciousMemory and forgettingSlips of the tongueRepressionPsychoanalytic interpretation

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Book overview

The most trivial slips of the tongue or pen, Freud believed, can reveal our secret ambitions, worries, and fantasies. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life ranks among his most enjoyable works. Starting with the story of how he once forgot the name of an Italian painter--and how a young acquaintance mangled a quotation from Virgil through fears that his girlfriend might be pregnant--it brings together a treasure trove of muddled memories, inadvertent actions, and verbal tangles. Amusing, moving, and deeply revealing of the repressed, hypocritical Viennese society of his day, Freud's dazzling interpretations provide the perfect introduction to psychoanalytic thinking in action.

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