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Psychopathology of Everyday Life: Introduction by A. A. Brill

by Sigmund Freud

Freud on the meanings of everyday slips

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Freud on the meanings of everyday slips

In this 1914 work, presented here as a 2011 facsimile reprint, Sigmund Freud examines deviations in ordinary behavior and errors that can seem random. He interprets such occurrences as clues to underlying psychological processes, connecting everyday experience with his account of psychopathology and psychoanalysis. The book’s subject also reaches into questions of language and meaning, which the publisher description links to linguistics, semantics, and philosophy. Its focus is not only on clinical disorder but on how small departures from routine might be understood within a broader theory of the psyche.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers studying Freud and the history of psychoanalysis
  • Readers interested in psychological interpretations of everyday behavior and errors
  • Readers exploring connections between psychology, language, semantics, and philosophy

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PsychoanalysisEveryday behavior and errorsPsychopathologyLanguage and meaning

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Book overview

2011 Reprint of 1914 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Psychopathology of Everyday Life is one of the key texts of Sigmund Freud, who provided the foundation for the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Along with the with The Interpretation of Dreams, Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Ego and the Id, the Psychopathology of Everyday Life is a classic in the literature of psychoanalysis. The book also became one of the scientific classics of the 20th century. It is also very important not only for psychopathology, but for modern linguistics, semantics and philosophy. Studying the various deviations from everyday behavior, as well as seemingly random errors, Freud concludes that these abnormalities suggest an underlying pathology of the psyche and constitute symptoms of psychoneurosis.
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