We learn of his marital tiffs his daughter's life-threatening illness sexual attraction to a younger woman omitting to pay bills and losing his keys rivalry with colleagues and, despite his famed photographic memory, forgetting the name of a famous Renaissance painter, Signorelli. Many examples come from his own life, professional and personal. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life reveals Freud at his most scintillating. The ‘Freudian slip’, with its double entendre of a revealing/concealing female undergarment, appeared in 1959. ‘Fehlleistungen’ was changed by Strachey from Brill's ‘faulty action’ to the pseudo-medical ‘parapraxis’. Written in 1901, published in 1904, it was first translated into English by Brill in 1914. The book belongs to Freud's middle period, while still a passionate clinician reveling in free-associationism, and relatively unencumbered by meta-psychology. But The Psychopathology of Everyday Life fully deserves the epithet: a glorious collection of anecdotes, spoonerisms, lacunae, ‘speech blunders’ and odd actions – revealing, he argues, the cauldron of repressed feelings lurking below consciousness. Joyous is not a word normally associated with Freud despite being the true meaning of his name.
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