The concept of "Freudian slip of the tongue" took root in colloquial language as a catch phrase. However, not everyone understands what this expression means. To understand, it is worth familiarizing yourself with the psychoanalytic theory of erroneous actions.
How a disclaimer arises
The slip of the tongue in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory is a type of erroneous action. Erroneous actions also include misspellings, stonecrops, mishearing, misleading objects, temporary forgetting. In everyday life, people do not pay special attention to erroneous actions, meanwhile they serve as eloquent psychoanalytic material.
Erroneous actions are not limited to an anxious or distracted person. They happen precisely when too much attention is paid to the correctness of their implementation. In simple terms, a person tries too hard to hide something.
The mechanism for the appearance of a reservation is a clash of two intentions, violating and being violated. The violated intention is known to the speaker; this is the originally intended meaning of the phrase. An abusive intent is a tendency that is unacceptable to the speaker that he would like to hide.
Violating intention can affect the violated one in different ways. It can give the reservation a contradictory meaning, amend or supplement. If the violating and the violated intentions have nothing in common, then the reservation was caused by the thoughts that captured the person shortly before the erroneous action.
What is the meaning of reservations
To find out the meaning of the slip, psychoanalysts resort to the testimony of the speaker. However, these indications may not always help. In this case, evidence can be looked for in the character of the person, the mental situation, the impressions received before the reservation.
The level of the speaker's awareness of the existence of the offending intent can vary. Sometimes the speaker knew of the offending intent and felt it before the reservation. He tried to supplant this intention, but it still manifested itself in speech.
In other cases, the speaker is completely unaware of the existence of the offending intent and vehemently denies all assumptions about it. This means that the intention has been repressed too deeply. The speaker really forgot him.
A slip of the tongue does not necessarily manifest itself globally, it can occur with a single sound as well. The sound is mispronounced or is lost from the word. In such cases, the disturbing tendency only hints at its existence, without expressing its own intention.
The presence of anxiety or fatigue will undoubtedly precipitate reservations. Just like the consonance of words, when the word is replaced by a consonant. However, in most cases, there are no such conditions.
