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- noun Plural form of
parapraxis .
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He thought that this unconscious is always producing its effect in these linguistic tropes and also in the gaps, and also in the lapses in our speaking, or in our written discourse, or in our spoken discourse; those things that we are not talking, or those things that Freud called parapraxes.
Ehsan Azari Stanizai: Lacan and His Significance in Western Philosophy Ehsan Azari Stanizai 2011
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He thought that this unconscious is always producing its effect in these linguistic tropes and also in the gaps, and also in the lapses in our speaking, or in our written discourse, or in our spoken discourse; those things that we are not talking, or those things that Freud called parapraxes.
Ehsan Azari Stanizai: Lacan and His Significance in Western Philosophy Ehsan Azari Stanizai 2011
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He thought that this unconscious is always producing its effect in these linguistic tropes and also in the gaps, and also in the lapses in our speaking, or in our written discourse, or in our spoken discourse; those things that we are not talking, or those things that Freud called parapraxes.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ehsan Azari Stanizai 2011
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It has been shown, however, not only that Freud's theory of parapraxes is conceptually dubious but that the book announcing it contains not a single satisfactory illustration of that theory.
The Unknown Freud: An Exchange Blum, Harold P. 1994
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How can Rothstein deny that Nisbett and Wilson would emphatically discount the confirmation which Freud claimed for his theory of parapraxes on the basis of introspective self-observations made by Storfer, himself, and Lou Andréas Salomé (S.E. 6, pp. 118, 162-163, 168)?
How Valid Is Psychoanalysis? An Exchange Gruenbaum, Adolf 1981
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We are alien to ourselves; our real desires may be unkown to us, emerging only in parapraxes and dreams.
k-punk mark 2010
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The good Dr Freud always pounced on parapraxes of the Spooner-Naughtie kind, with the glee of a butterfly-hunter spotting a rare, attractive Camberwell Beauty.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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