Sigmund Freud's Theory Of The Freudian Slip Theory

Introduction

Freudian slip theory was originally created by Sigmund Freud. He was an Austrian neurologist and was better known as the founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939). Psychoanalysis can be defined as a set of psychological theories which includes the Freudian slip theory. He believed that everyone possess an unconscious mind, feelings, desires and memories in their lifetime. It is to be said that peoples will bring their unconscious content on their mind to their conscious awareness and people will be able to experience catharsis and gain insight into their current state of mind. (Cherry, What is Psychoanalysis?, 2016)

Freud’s theory of slips of the tongue and pen Sigmund Freud theory is formed based on peoples brings the unconscious

The words that involve in the passage are ‘potted’ and ‘private’. Both words are adjectives and they starts with the letter ‘p’. Freud recognized this and maintained that most errors happened when there are several causes to create the error. He named it over determination of an error. It resembles a modern idea about how memory retrieval takes place through an intersecting association process. When interpreting the word "potted" lies at the intersection of several associations: it starts with the letter "p", it has two syllables, it fits into the sentence and it has to do with the roommate problem. So the word "potted" was used and applied it on my roommate accidentally. (Dewey,

In 1981, Erdelyi found a Freudian slip in an article criticizing Freudian ideas. Erdelyi had previously written an article titled: "Let us not sweep repression under the rug," a title which was itself a play on words. But when Loftus and Loftus (1980) cited the paper, while arguing against repressed memories, they rendered the title as, "Let us now sweep repression under the rug." To Erdelyi, that was exactly what they were trying to do, so he saw this error as an amusing Freudian slip. (Dewey, 2007)

In contrast, there are evidence that proves Freudian slips is unavoidable and peoples will correct it if they say it or wrote it wrongly. It is clear that slips and mistake are two different things as if ones who make a mistake and instantly he/she will correct it, that will be the slips of tongue or pen but if ones kept on making the same mistakes over and over again and he/she does not know how to correct it, obviously that is a mistake made by the person. However, since Sigmund Freud’s theory been introduced there were many philosopher and researcher who disagree with his idea. Why?

Modern views on Freudian