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Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939

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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. ... Read more

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AuthorFreud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
TranslatorBrill, A. A. (Abraham Arden), 1874-1948
LoC No.14022011
Uniform TitleZur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens. English
TitlePsychopathology of Everyday Life
Original PublicationUnited States: The Macmillan Company,1914.
NoteWikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Psychopathology_of_Everyday_Life
ContentsForgetting 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.
CreditsThomas 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 LevelReading ease score: 55.5 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
LanguageEnglish
LoC ClassBF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
SubjectAssociation of ideas
CategoryText
eBook-No.67332
ISBN (HTML)979-8-238-67332-5
Release DateFeb 6, 2022
Last UpdateOct 18, 2024
CopyrightPublic domain in the USA.
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