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Freudian slip
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Freudian slip
n.
A verbal mistake that is thought to reveal a repressed belief, thought, or emotion.
Freudian slip
Noun
a slip of the tongue that may reveal an unconscious wish
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Noun1.Freudian slip - a slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals
parapraxis, slip-up, miscue, slip - a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.


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From Bruce Nauman to Thomas Zipp, George Maciunas to Rachel Harrison, Martin Kippenberger to John Bock, this show, Freudian slips and all, should evoke some uncomfortable giggles, awkward guffaws, and maybe a tear or two.
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Mangled names, slips of the tongue, Freudian slips and smooshed-together words have been recorded in an aging spiral notebook dubbed the ``diptionary.
INARTICULATIONS ABOUND IN BOOK; EDWARDS ENGINEERS DOCUMENT VERBAL ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Kelley's character never seems to get it right, but in the manner of Freudian slips of the hand, his de Sadean sexual fantasies take delicious form--if, that is, your tastes run to a quick set-up torture table, or to a portable john with an erect electronic microphone rising from the depths of the toilet to enhance the private exhilaration of a bowel movement.
Mike Kelley by Avgikos, Jan / Artforum International
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