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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Disciplines:
psychoanalysis

Summary

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.

Core Contribution

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.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • Unconscious mind exploration (The book is a seminal work in exploring the unconscious mind and its role in shaping behavior, as seen in the concept of parapraxes.)
  • Everyday life as a window to the psyche (Freud's work shows how everyday mistakes and slips can be used to understand the unconscious mind, as demonstrated in the book's analysis of dreams and slips of the tongue.)

Historical Influences

Freud

Intellectual Lineage

German Idealism

Allied Works

The Interpretation of Dreams Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Contemporaries & Peers

The Interpretation of Dreams

Minds Influenced

postmodernism

Intellectual Posterity

psychoanalytic theory unconscious mind conceptparapraxis theory

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