Those Randy Shrinks
With apologies to Shrinkette.
In a recent post about mistyping, Jennifer replied:
Hmmmm....sounds like a Freudian slip to me!
Although I'm not certain how unsold/unsoled relates to my secret longing for various family members...unless it reveals a shoe fetish.
Well, that just begged for some research. Eager to please:
The Freudian Slip
Freud's term for these was "faulty action" (Fehleistung), for which his editor/translator adopted the pseudo-Greek scientism parapraxis. The colloquial label is "Freudian slip" -- and as we'll see, the old man found some beauts. Freud's fascinating 1901 book on the subject (The Psychopathology of Everyday Life) distinguishes errors of speech (Versprechen), memory (Vergessen), and action (Vergreifen). In every case there is presumed to be an unconscious determinant of the faulty action, which can sometimes be inferred directly from the context....
But I believe that this anonymous statement (collected by Rand Lindsly) says it all:
Higgeldy Piggeldy,
Hamlet of Elsinore
Ruffled the critics by
Dropping this bomb:
"Phooey on Freud and his
Psychoanalysis --
Oedipus, Schmoedipus,
I just loved Mom."
Anon.
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