“If any one should be inclined to overrate the state of our present knowledge of mental life, all that would be needed to force him to assume a modest attitude would be to remind him of the function of memory.” “What we observe on normal persons as slips of the tongue gives the same impression as the first step of the so-called paraphasias which manifest themselves under pathologic conditions.” “It is easy to understand that my forgetting in this case may be analogous to the typical disturbance of judgment which dominates us when it concerns those nearest to us.” I could neither recall such a conversation nor my friend’s revelation.” “It is truly painful to be thus requested to renounce one’s originality. “No psychologic theory has yet been able to account for the connection between the fundamental phenomena of remembering and forgetting.” “I became convinced that with the aid of a certain artifice I can recall far more than I would otherwise credit myself with remembering.” “The mistake served to bring to consciousness in a concealed manner a memory which was connected with a painful feeling.” “The ordinary vocabulary of our own language seems to be protected against forgetting within the limits of normal function.” ― Sigmund Freud, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.“We assert that besides the simple forgetting of proper names there is another forgetting which is motivated by repression.” Few will finish this book without starting to take a fresh look at their own behavior, their own small slips of the tongue and faulty actions - perhaps with the same wry smile Freud seems to wear! In many cases, the book is really a kind of wry autobiography, a psychoanalyst's analysis of himself. The book is personal many of the incidents he analyzes come directly from his own life and behavor. By turning the spotlight of his ideas about the nature and function of the unconscious mind onto simple and easily understandable incidents that we have all experienced, such as slips of the tongue, sudden inexplicable clumsy actions, forgetfulness, and the like, he shows us, often in rather humorous ways, just how our unconscious minds have a powerful influence on everything we say and do. Sigmund Freud's Psychopathology of Everyday Life is surely the most approachable and enjoyable of all his works.
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