Freudian slip
/ˌfɹɔɪdi.ən ˈslɪp/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A mistake in speech or action in which a person supposedly shows their true subconscious desires.
"After disposing of these general topics in a chapter entitled "The Manners of All Men" (but which, by some Freudian slip, we suppose, deals chiefly with 'The Impure Man')"
- 2 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 wordnet
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More examples"After disposing of these general topics in a chapter entitled "The Manners of All Men" (but which, by some Freudian slip, we suppose, deals chiefly with 'The Impure Man')"
Etymology
Named after Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856–1939).