What is a Freudian Slip and what are a few examples?

-- summer fadell (sumbum294@aol.com), September 05, 2002

Answers

This phrase is usually used to refer to a slip of the tongue, especially when the mistake appears to "reveal" a presumed secret thought or wish (such as disliking someone one professes to like), or when the mistake results in a comment of a sexual nature.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), September 05, 2002.

One of my favorite examples is in Ludy Benjamin's (1997) second edition of A History of Psychology: Original Sources and Contemporary Research. Benjamin writes, in his introduction to psychoanalysis (p. 488), about Freud's lectures at Clark Universtiy:

"Freud gave five pubic lectures there."

Thus, a Freudian slip about Freud!

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), September 06, 2002.

A Freudian slip is really a slip of the tongue the reveals your subconcious minds. Here is an example that I found helpful:

A man was reading a copy of Playboy magazine. A friend asked what he was reading, he responded `Playbody'

-- Collette Ho (sewhappee04@aol.com), October 09, 2004.

In Atkinson & Hilgard's _Introduction to Psychology_ a lovely comic is used to explain Freudian slips. It shows the queen greeting the king with a hearty 'Good morning beheaded -- eh, beloved!'.

-- Casper Hulshof (no@nono.com), October 12, 2004.

I would give the example of Liar Liar (the movie)

He is in the elevator with an extremely attractive woman and asks her if everyone has been nice to her in the building (she is a new tennent) She answers "Yea real nice" He means to say "That is good" but instead he says " That is because your boobs are huge..." That is the one that comes to my mind

-- Angel (alwayzanangle@swb.net), February 24, 2005.