![]() ![]() The book contains twelve chapters on forgetting (proper names, words belonging to foreign languages, series of words, impressions, and projects) childhood memories and screen memories slips of the tongue (spoken and written) mistakes, clumsiness, symptomatic acts, errors, associations of several "parapraxes" and the determinism of the unconscious, the belief in chance and superstition.Īll these forms of behavior are grouped under the heading of "slips of the tongue": "I almost invariably discover a disturbing influence. He makes use of his knowledge and interest in literature to provide many examples by writers, poets, and dramatists, reinforcing his position by emphasizing their intuitive understanding of the meaning of parapraxis. He emphasizes the importance in life of displacement, condensation, over-determination, and the creation of compromise formations. The theoretical aspect is practically nonexistent, although Freud does compare the interpretation of everyday life to dream theory, another banal psychopathological phenomenon familiar to everyone. ![]() Everyday psychopathology is discussed with few allusions to infantile sexuality and its impact on adult pathology. ![]() He abandons his customary process, that of discussing the normal in terms of the pathological. Freud discusses psychoanalytic matter in the context of everyday life, sidestepping the experience of neurosis. ![]() Sigmund Freud's lively book, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, has some unique characteristics. ![]()
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