Freudian

Freudian slip

Any inadvertent verbal or written mistake that reveals, or can be construed as revealing, an unconscious or repressed intention, belief, thought, attitude, etc. Named for the Sigmund Freud, considered the founding father of psychoanalysis, whose work largely focused on the unconscious and repressed elements of the human psyche. He said the wrong woman's name during his wedding ceremony, a Freudian slip that sent the bride-to-be into tears.
See also: Freudian, slip
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

a ˌFreudian ˈslip

a mistake in speaking or writing which shows what you really think or feel about somebody/something: ‘I’ve never loved, I mean I’ve never stopped loving, my mother.’ ‘Was that a Freudian slip?’This is named after Sigmund Freud.
See also: Freudian, slip
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  • be dead on (one's) feet
  • be knocked out cold
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As numerous writers have shown, the Freudian uncanny is a function of the Enlightenment: 'the sleep of Reason breeds monsters', in Goya's famous illustration.
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The viewpoint is rigidly Freudian. I couldn't believe the amount of sexual innuendo she read into George Balanchine's middle period ballets The Four Temperaments, Agon, and Episodes.
Borrowing the Freudian concept of "melancholia," Gilroy attempts to exorcise the British attachment to global grandeur that, by this account, has metastasized into a social pathology directed at blacks, immigrants, and the very idea of multiculturalism.
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I'm not even bothered if the artist is Freud, Freudian, sub-Freudian, or indeed not very good at all
In this original, succinct, and highly relevant book, Celia Britton carefully unravels the nature of this contradiction and traces the various distortions and reformulations of Freudian thought within the Antillean context.