Meaning of Freudian slip | Babel Free

Definitions

A mistake in speech or action in which a person supposedly shows their true subconscious desires.

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Examples

“After disposing of these general topics in a chapter entitled "The Manners of All Men" (but which, by some Freudian slip, we suppose, deals chiefly with 'The Impure Man')”

“Film has in fact enriched our world of perception, with methods which could be illustrated by Freudian theory. A Freudian slip in conversation would occur fifty years ago more or less unnoticed.”

“I always felt I was doing a bit of bluffing. I wondered the same when he referred to some of, his ideas being "away with the pixies", Freudian slip or did he intend[…]”

“After reviewing a tape of a newscast done by our candidate, in my enthusiasm I made my Freudian slip”

“In response to several other questions posed by the panel, Ann Biggot proclaimed that she had no fear of reprisal for her testimony, but every so often a Freudian slip would break out from her careful answers.”

“You know, folks, that’s the America that George Bush has left us. And that’s the America we’ll continue to get if George – excuse me, if John McCain is elected president of the United States of America. Freudian slip. Freudian slip.”

“Mr. Vance said Omar Fateh, a Minnesota state senator of Somali descent, had previously run for mayor of “Mogadishu.” “I mean Minneapolis,” Mr. Vance said of the city with a large Somali American population. “Little Freudian slip there.””

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