Freudian slip

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Freudian slip

A verbal mistake that is thought to reveal a repressed belief, thought, or emotion.

Freudian slip

(Psychology) any action, such as a slip of the tongue, that may reveal an unconscious thought

Freud′ian slip′

an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that supposedly reveals an unconscious motive, wish, attitude, etc.

[1950–55]

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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.

Translations

freudovské přeřeknutí

lapsuslapsus révélateur

lapsus lapsus freudiano

Freudian slip

n → freudsche Fehlleistung; (spoken) → freudscher Versprecher

Freudian slip

n → lapsus m inv freudiano

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A 'informacao conscientemente nao intencional', ou seja, nao intencionada de modo consciente, pode ser aquela que advem por um ato falho (tambem chamado parapraxia) (5), por exemplo.

For a genealogical systematization of layers of meaning of the onion model of utterance-meaning: the speaker's perspective/Para uma sistematizacao genealogica das camadas de significado da 'cebola de significancia': a perspectiva do falante

"Interpretacao" aplica-se a algo que se faz a algum elemento isolado do material, tal como uma associacao ou uma parapraxia [Fehlleistung].

The interpretative cut in psychoanalysis/o corte interpretativo em psicanalise

Parapraxia tweeted: "If Thatcher can have the same funeral as Diana, then it's only fair we dig up Hitler and give him a go too."