Timeline for Word meaning: A slip of the tongue which suggests how you actually feel, often humorous
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| Mar 7, 2016 at 17:55 | vote | accept | Mr. Boy | ||
| Feb 27, 2016 at 2:57 | comment | added | Sled | A Freudian slip is where you say one thing, but really mean a mother. ;-) | |
| Feb 27, 2016 at 0:46 | comment | added | Pharap | @DarrelHoffman The main reason for that is because Freud related a lot of things to sex (one of his main theories was the 'psychosexual stages' which is incidentally the origin of the phrase 'to be anal'). In its original meaning a Freudian slip was generally about sexual things, but it became generalised. (My low-level psychology qualification comes in handy once more, huzzah!) | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 18:15 | comment | added | Nate Green | I once attended a wedding where the pastor meant to say that the bride and groom were "present" but instead said "pregnant." (Fortunately the couple were very good sports about it, and no, they weren't actually pregnant.) That, I would say, is a classic example of a "Freudian" slip: unintended, appropriate to the situation, and usually hilarious. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 19:18 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | @IwillnotexistIdonotexist - Hmm, I'd like to pretend that was on purpose, but having never heard of the other definition until now, I can honestly say that was entirely unintentional. But admittedly hilarious. (Can you still call it a Freudian slip if the person who makes it is unaware even subconsciously of alternate meaning?) | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 19:10 | comment | added | Iwillnotexist Idonotexist | @DarrelHoffman I don't know if you intended it (If so, +1!) but what's hilarious is that your statement is both self-referential, and a Freudian slip. A gaffe is a mistake, while a gaff is something else entirely. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 18:53 | history | rollback | JEL |
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| Feb 25, 2016 at 17:15 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | My experience has been that the term "Freudian slip" typically refers specifically to gaffs of a sexual nature. This may not be the official definition, but it seems to be widely used in that way. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 15:49 | comment | added | Cronax | @WS2 Unfortunately the absence of empirical evidence doesn't always prevent the adoption of a statement as truth...for evidence, just look to people who believe the earth is flat, evolution is a hoax, or gluten free diets are healthy for everyone and not just people with gluten allergies... | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 10:13 | comment | added | Tonny | That's what I was going to suggest too. And it doesn't have to be verbal. You can do it in writing too: In an email to a colleague I misspelled another guys name consistently as Dubious in stead of Dubios without realizing it. My colleague also didn't notice. (Mr. Dubois wasn't very easy to work with... So it felt "right".) About a year later another colleague (who didn't know of our earlier slip of the pen) did exactly the same thing. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 9:43 | comment | added | Lenne | A Freudian slip is when you say one thing and mean your mother -- I mean "another" | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 8:57 | history | edited | Jacinto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2016 at 8:47 | comment | added | Jacinto | @WS2 Good point. I guess that's why you have "interpreted as" in Wikipedia, and "thought to" in dictionary .com | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 8:43 | comment | added | WS2 | +1 You are right in as much as that is what it is usually called. However modern cognitive psychologists place little reliance on Freud's theory about the existence of an ordered sub-conscious - mainly because it relies too much on theory, and there is little empirical evidence for such a thing. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 8:39 | history | edited | Jacinto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2016 at 8:38 | comment | added | Yay | Darn it! Thirty seconds late! Anyway, +1 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 8:34 | history | answered | Jacinto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |