The force of unconscious, which overshadows nineteenth part of mind according to Freud is so dynamic that besides expressing itself in dream, art and literature it also seeks expression in our day to day activity.įreud therefore stated that such repressed unconscious and motivated desires express themselves through slip of tongue, common forgetting, slip of pen and many other related phenomena observed in our day to day life. Therefore, Adler first pointed out that when a person is asked to choose a number out of many, the number actually selected by him is always connected with some mental process of considerable importance and this can be brought to the surface by means of free association. It seeks to explain the fact that every action must have a definite cause behind it. The concept of psychic determinism lies at the root of all these behaviour which we call purposeless. It is obvious that these symptoms are neurotic in that they represent flaws in the normal functioning of human mind. Freud in his book “Everyday psychopathology of life” remarks that these little mistakes of everyday life which we meet more often than not, are the manifestations of the unconscious aspects of our aggressive and erotic urges similar to the mechanism of dream. The realm of psychic determinism is thus applicable here.
The study of the problem of psychopathology of everyday life is of special significance as this phenomena proves that there is no water tight compartment between the normal and the abnormal.įreud’s discovery of everyday psychopathology of life reflects that before Freud, the common belief was that slip of tongue, common forgetting and everyday mistakes which all of us often meet, but consider to be incidental and cause less, have definite cause, meaning and economy. This concept of Freud ultimately shake the pride and vanity of normal human beings who thought themselves so gentle and kind.įreud showed to the world that there lurcks in all of us those wishes, desires, urges and impulses which we have been loath to recognize in ourselves.
As he explains, most of these slips tend of be of a relatively anodyne nature, but some are a little more sinister, particularly those where pride or thwarted love are concerned.This led Freud to the study of faulty action of everyday life in terms of the concept of everyday psychopathology of life. Through a series of case histories, some no longer than a few lines long, Freud explores how it is that normal people make slips of speech, writing, reading and remembering in their everyday life, and reveals what it is that they betray about the existence of a sub-text or subliminal motive to our conscious actions. It also builds up a strong social history of Vienna and the middle-class social milieu of Freud and his patients. This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase 'Freudian slip'.
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