Parapraxis (slips of the tongue, forgetting names, making mistakes) are not accidents but meaningful activities expressing unconscious desires; forgetting someone's name is not arbitrary memory failure but a symbolic representation of dislike for that person

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the mistakes that you make are another symbolic representation of your unconscious desires so when you forget someone's name... that is a meaningful activity and he reads that as being your dislike of the person

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Freud and PhilosophyMichael Sugrue
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:42:29 AM

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