Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
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"Psychopathology of Everyday Life" by Sigmund Freud is a work published in 1901. It explores how seemingly trivial mental lapses—forgotten names, slips of the tongue, random errors—reveal hidden workings of the unconscious mind. Freud argues these everyday mistakes aren't accidents but meaningful symptoms of unconscious thoughts and impulses. Through numerous examples, he suggests the boundary between normal and neurotic behavior is surprisingly fluid, making a case that we are all, in some
measure, influenced by forces beyond our conscious awareness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden), 1874-1948 |
| LoC No. | 14022011 |
| Uniform Title | Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens. English |
| Title | Psychopathology of Everyday Life |
| Original Publication | United States: The Macmillan Company,1914. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Psychopathology_of_Everyday_Life |
| Contents | Forgetting of proper names -- Forgetting of foreign words -- Forgetting of names and order of words -- Childhood and concealing memories -- Mistakes in speech -- Mistakes in reading and writing -- Forgetting of impressions and resolutions -- Erroneously carried-out actions -- Symptomatic and chance actions -- Errors -- Combined faulty acts -- Determinism, chance, and superstitious beliefs. |
| Credits | Thomas Frost, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 55.5 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis |
| Subject | Memory |
| Subject | Psychology, Pathological |
| Subject | Psychoanalysis |
| Subject | Repression (Psychology) |
| Subject | Paragrammatism |
| Subject | Association of ideas |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 67332 |
| Release Date | Feb 6, 2022 |
| Last Update | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1530 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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