The Penguin Freud Library, Vol.5: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. This item is unavailable.The Penguin Freud Library, Vol.5: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

The simple but convincing explanations of things that are familiar to everybody are explained in this book: the sudden forgetting of proper names, of sets of words, impressions and intentions; childhood and "screen" memories; bungled actions and other errors; and all those little, significant mistakes of tongue and pen that have come to be called "Freudian slips". This volume also contains Strachey's sketch of Freud's life and ideas.

Along with the Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, the present text remains one of Freud's most widely read. It is filled with anecdotes, many of them quite amusing, and virtually bereft of difficult technical terminology. And Freud put himself on the line: numerous acts of willful forgetting or 'inexplicable' mistakes are recounted from his personal experience. None of such actions can be called truly accidental, or uncaused: that is the real lesson of the Psychopathology.