What does the term 'a Freudian Slip' mean?

Answer 1

It means you say something that your subconscious is thinking. For example I had a friend who ordered a layer bean dick instead of a layered bean dip at dinner. We laughed and said it was a Freudian Slip.

Answer 2

It is called a freudian slip because Freud was famous for analyzing the subconscious. He's also written about this, (though he called them "fehlleistung", faulty action) so it's not as if some person randomly decided to name it after him. He believed that these paraprixes where not coincidental, and had meanings - that they could be used to determine how a person really felt. Freud believed that we were basically, subconsciously fixated on sexual things, but a freudian slip does not have to hint at anything crude necessarily, so you could say the expression does quite a lot, but not entirely. As for if it means anything, that entirely depends on what you said, what you meant to say... and if you believe it did.

Answer 3

A Freudian slip is something you you were thinking about but didn't mean to say.

Answer 4

Freudian slip, or parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory or physical action that is believed to be caused by the unconscious mind. Some errors, such as a man accidentally calling his wife by the name of the other woman he loves more and with whom he is having an affair, seem to represent relatively clear cases of Freudian slips. In other cases, the error might appear to be trivial or bizarre, but may show some deeper meaning on analysis. A Freudian slip is not limited to a slip of the tongue, or to sexual desires. It can extend to our word perception where we might read a word incorrectly because of our fixations. It is important to note that these slips are semi-conscious. This is to say that these thoughts are consciously repressed and then unconsciously released. This is unlike true Freudian repression which is the unconscious act of making something unconscious.

The Freudian slip is named after Sigmund Freud, who described the phenomenon he called Fehlleistung (literally meaning "faulty action" in German, but termed as parapraxis in English) in his 1901 book The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. Freud gives several examples of seemingly trivial, bizarre or nonsensical Freudian slips in Psychopathology; the analysis is often quite lengthy and complex, as was the case with many of the dreams in The Interpretation of Dreams.

Popularization of the term has diluted its technical meaning in some contexts to include any slip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, often in an attempt by the user to humorously assign hidden motives or sexual innuendo to the mistake. It is not clear, however, what Freud considered an "innocent" mistake, or if he thought that there were any innocent mistakes. The enormous quantity of slips analyzed in psychopathology, many of which are banal or apparently trivial, would seem to indicate that Freud felt almost any seemingly tiny slip or hesitation would respond to analysis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip

Answer 5

here is an eg of the sexual mind of someone who was like freude!

They say what the are thinking!

Two men are talking in the bar sharing their sob stories. One man says, "I had the worst Freudian slip the other day."

The other man responds, "What the hell is a Freudian slip?" "You know," says the first man. "It's when you mean to say one thing, but you say something else that reveals what you are really thinking about.

Like the other day I was at the airport, and this really sexy lady was helping me. Instead of asking her for 'two tickets to Pittsburgh,' I asked her for 'two pickets to Tittsburgh." The second replies, "Oh, now I know what you are talking about. It's like the other day when I was having breakfast with my wife. I wanted her to pass me the orange juice, but instead I said, 'You ruined my life, b1tch!'"

That is one, here is another..................

only the other day i wanted to be passed the remote control and accidentally said " sit on my face and wriggle about" so it happens to the best of us

Answer 6

A Freudian Slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Answer 7

It comes from Freud's work on the unconscious . Its where we try to say something but a different often risque word comes out as a result of underlying thinking. Its often believed to be purely sexual as Freud said we were driven by sex and although that is the case a lot it is not always it can be anything. An example may be

“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child”

George W Bush

Answer 8

This means you want to say something but it comes out as something you feel instead i.e.
Thinking, "Glad to meet you", you say, "Sad to meet you".
Thinking, "I'm happy", you say "I'm crappy"
Freud is today put down for being so wrapped up in his pre-occupation with sex. But, remember in his day seeing a woman's ankle was sexually stimulating. I think he had a lot of theories including the, "Freudian Slip", correct.

Answer 9

It's a "slip of the tongue" where you, as someone put it "say one thing, but mean your mother" -- that is to say, mean another.

It's where you say the wrong word, but, it turns out to be what you really meant.

The word 'slip' is in there for 'slip of the tongue' which is saying the wrong word, not the word you intended to say.

The word 'Freudian' is there because it was Sigmund Freud who suggested that many such slips aren't pure accidents, but are the unconscious part of the mind revealing a hidden thought or desire.

Hence, the substitution in the joke "say one thing, but mean another" -- "say one thing, but mean your mother". (Freud believed that all males unconsciously sexually desire their mothers -- so the word "comes out" by "accident" when actually, it expresses what the person really means.)

In the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xander, helping Buffy collect her spilled stuff from her purse, says "May I have you?" when he MEANT to say "May I help you?"

He was intending to ask if he could help, but "accidentally" expressed his desire to "have" her.

Wrong word, except that he really said what he really meant, but hadn't meant to actually say.

Answer 10

When you unconsciously say something revealing about your thoughts that you wouldn't have said if you thought about it, but it's commonly meant to mean when you say something about s*x when you shouldn't.

I'm always doing Freudian slits. Oops, slips.