A foundational work in psychoanalysis that explores the psychological mechanisms behind everyday mistakes and slips, situating Freud's thought in the early 20th-century intellectual landscape.
The book introduces the concept of parapraxes, or slips of the tongue, as a way to access the unconscious mind, demonstrating how these everyday errors can reveal repressed thoughts and desires.
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