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the slip where your unconscious rats you out mid-sentence.
means a small error in speech, memory, or action that reveals a hidden or repressed thought.
from coined from greek para (beside) and praxis (action), popularized by freud in the psychopathology of everyday life 1901, where slips of the tongue became clues to buried wishes.
common namefreudian slip is the same thing
not just talkincludes forgetting names, misplacing objects, typos
freud's claimno error is truly accidental, all mean something
for instance
secretary's memo typo — called boss's rival wife instead of his own, cited in later freudian case studies
political gaffes — bush's nuclear vs nucular repeatedly read as revealing slips by critics