The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

by Sigmund Freud

Overview

Psychopathology of Everyday Life is a 1901 work by Sigmund Freud, based on his researches into slips and parapraxes from 1897 onwards-one which became perhaps the best-known of all his writings. Freud examines the psychological basis for the forgetting of names and words, the misuse of words in speech and in writing, and other similar errors. It is filled with anecdotes, many of them quite amusing, and virtually bereft of difficult technical terminology. Through its stress on what Freud called 'switch words' and 'verbal bridges', it is considered important not only for psychopathology but also for modern linguistics, semantics, and philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789388118231
Publisher:	General Press
Publication date:	01/01/2018
Series:	Deluxe Hardbound Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is one of the twentieth century's greatest minds and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His many works include The Ego and the Id; An Outline of Psycho-Analysis; Inhibitions; Symptoms and Anxiety; New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis; Civilization and Its Discontent, and others.

Peter Gay (1923—2015) was the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time.

Table of Contents

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life - Sigmund Freud Introduction
Translator's Preface
I. Forgetting Proper Names
II. Forgetting Foreign Words
III. Forgetting Names and Sequences of Words
IV. On Childhood Memories and Screen Memories
V. Slips of the Tongue
VI. Slips in Reading and Slips of the Pen
VII. Forgetting Impressions and Intentions
VIII. Inadvertent Actions
IX. Symptomatic and Fortuitous Actions
X. Making Mistakes
XI. Combined Slips
XII. Determinism - Belief in Chance and Superstition - Some Points of View