Definitions
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- noun A verbal mistake that is thought to reveal a repressed belief, thought, or emotion.
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- noun A
mistake inspeech oraction in which a person supposedly shows his or her truesubconscious desires.
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- noun 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
Etymologies
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Named for psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
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jmjarmstrong commented on the word Freudian slip
JM reckons a Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
August 13, 2011