If someone makes a "freudian slip",is the thing true?or is it just an old wives tale?

Question

is the content of the freudian slip ALWAYS related to the TRUTH?

Answer 1

eh? its when you say what you are thinking and not what you are meant to say.

Answer 2

A Freudian slip is neither true nor untrue. It merely reflects a parallel thought or a processing cross-over. This means that one's brain might mix up sounds when retrieving words from memory, or, because they are distracted and thinking about one thing whilst saying something, they can reveal a subconcious idea. I once saw a video of a bridegroom at a wedding, who during his speech said, "and now there's someone I'd really like to spank" (when he meant "thank"). He could have been having naughty fantasisies about that person, but it is more likely that he simply retrieved the wrong sound from memory under a stressful situation.

Unlike the Australian presenter who was due to introduce a Mr Dick, and accidentally introduced him as Mr C*ck.
(I think we all know what he was thinking!)

Answer 3

OK, this phrase comes from the work of Freud en his younger apprentice Carl Jung in the 60's... both men worked on the principle that underlying all human action and thought was a set of impulses and triggers based on the sub-consious mind.

For Freud it was mostly a case of early life infl (iedipus complex- the father mother relationship) while jung looked at deaper sub groups in the mind...archetypes that reflected the true nature of the individual.

A freudian slip is when a person drops his or her guard and say's what they truelly think without stopping to think..it is a reflex responce to a question or situation that is totaly honest.

Now the only way to know if its true is this:

you must be the one making the "slip" and after u say it you will know u have done it!

eg... a stranger asks u "hey... do u hate chocolate?" ..you have just been given a bar of choc.by a good friend who is with u at the time the stranger asked question...
You hate choc. but didnt tell your friend that to spare his hurt feelings.... but without thinking u say "man..i hate chocolate!".

your friend looks at you with tears in his eyes and you realize u have made a "freudian" slip.

Its not a oldwifes tale, but a clearly defined effect from a third person trigger.

Answer 4

I believe the phenomenon can be a real one rather than just an "old wives' tale". People may say (or not say) something when they are motivated by some issue at an unconscious level. So, a name of a person or place or something else may 'come out' unexpectedly and perhaps embarrassingly, either in speech or in writing.

However, errors are not ALL likely to have an unconscious cause, they may occur for a number of other (conscious) reasons. Freud was quite a realist in many respects and he didn't believe that all symbolism (for example) had an unconscious motivation.

Answer 5

No.
Sometimes it reveals unconscious attitudes or needs that can be horrifying to the civilised mind.
Other 'slips of the tongue' may be due to more neurological/ brain circuitry misfires or even conscious attempts at manipulation.
Don't go off half on a mad one over it, take the time consider what's really going on and even if it is a true Freudian slip, remember that there are certain things we all agree to keep a lid on.

Answer 6

I think there is some truth to it. It happens to everyone I think. Just the other day I was making a cake and my husband and I were discussing vehicles and i said something like..."Which CAKE gets the best gas mileage?" I obviously didn't mean to say cake but since I was really thinking about the cake i was frosting and also talking about cars at the same time, i slipped and said cake.

Have you ever heard people say something rude or ask a personal question and then follow with "oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean that" or something similar? Thats because they really WERE thinking it but they just didn't mean to SAY it out loud.

Same goes for subconcious thinking. Sometimes if you say something that you didn't mean or blurt out something rude, it could be because you really are thinking it on a subconcious level.

Answer 7

It is a Theory it is not true or untrue.

Answer 8

yes otherwise its just a mistake in speech.

Answer 9

sometimes