Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Sigmund Freud (trans. A. A. Brill) · 1914
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About the book
Freud's most entertaining book: forgotten names, slips of the tongue, mislaid keys and «accidents», each traced back to a motive its owner would rather not meet. After reading it you will never say the wrong name innocently again.
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Part 1 · The painter whose name vanished. The first six slides, free.
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You know the feeling. A name you know perfectly well refuses to come, and in its place two wrong ones keep turning up, useless and oddly insistent.
The ordinary explanation is that proper names are simply slippery, and Freud grants that most psychologists would stop there. What caught his attention was the intruders. They are rejected the moment they appear, yet they come back "with great tenacity," as if they had business being there.
So he made a bet the whole book rests on: the detour from the right name to the wrong ones is not arbitrary. It follows "lawful and rational paths." If that is true, the wrong names are the clue, not the noise, and following them back should show why the right one went missing.
Inside the course
12 parts- The forgetting of proper names — the Signorelli caseFree above
- Forgetting foreign words
- Childhood memories, and what conceals them
- Mistakes in speech: the slip catalogued
Questions
Is Psychopathology of Everyday Life free to read in Astra Trainer?
Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.
What is the short course?
12 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.
Where do I get the app?
Astra Trainer is free on the App Store and Google Play. Psychopathology of Everyday Life is waiting in the app’s library.
