Freudian slip

Related to Freudian slip: Freudian theory

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
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
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  • be dead on (one's) feet
  • be knocked out cold
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  • dead weight
References in periodicals archive
Deadly Doug came out with a Freudian slip within a few hours of announcing the arrival of the new chief executive when he referred to him to the press as 'my commercial director'.
Once in worship I misread Titus, declaring that we are to be "uptight" instead of "upright" (a Freudian slip?).
13, 1997), when asked by an Israel Radio interviewer whether the "peace process" could be defeated by its opponents, Shimon Peres replied with a classic Freudian slip, "The Oslo process will obliterate everybody." (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9924 )
Conductor Jacques Lacombe furnished typically incisive leadership of the Montreal Symphony, not the Orchestre Metropolitain, as the program listed it in a rather embarrassing Freudian slip.
Nevertheless, they will savor a Freudian slip of the tongue because, in his preface dated July 1999, Craig calls former Federal President Richard von Weizsacker the Reich President.
There are a handful of minor errors (Wills twice says Mark's gospel when he means Luke's, and he extends Pius IX's pontificate by ten years--a Freudian slip?); but we never doubt for an instant that he knows this vast territory inside and out, or that he has got the goods on his papal sinners.
"Preserving Disorder," a chapter named for Daley's famously Freudian slip about his cops, documents how little he understood either law or order.
The omission of any mention of Tru64-on-IA-64 in the collateral material was ruled an oversight rather than a Freudian slip. Compaq noted that it is not thinking of the effort as another 'Single Unix' project, all of which have ended in abject failure.
This may be a Freudian slip by Rice, which echoes an innate fear that Egypt felt towards being other than a man's world!
Far from being archivist uncovering a text's pre-history, Mehlman is a practitioner of collage, juxtaposing a multiple patchwork of surfaces connected by displacements, coincidences, repetitions, and patterns, which in the manner of the Freudian slip, are both camouflage and revelation.
As a parting shot, with no immediate relevance to the text in hand, could a 'pratfall' be construed as a Freudian slip?
'Nigerians can now see that Mr Fashola, in a Freudian slip, was made by God, to expose the truth that his boss, his party and his colleagues have been trying to suppress for the past three years, namely that former President Jonathan developed and grew Nigeria's economy at an unprecedented and consistent growth rate of over 6% per annum and handed over a thriving economy that was projected by CNNMoney to be the third fastest growing economy in the world when Dr Jonathan handed over power to President Buhari.
Duterte's 'Freudian slip' had betrayed his intention to eliminate opposition to his plans.
The English MPs had meant no harm but it was something of a Freudian slip.