The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

by Sigmund Freud and A.A. Freud, Sigmund and Brill

Book Overview

It is filled with anecdotes, many of them quite amusing, and virtually bereft of 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393006115
• ISBN13: 9780393006117
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Understanding 'Freudian Slips'.

This book has possibly done more than any other book to popularise psychology. Freud wrote it deliberately for the ordinary reader at the turn of the 20th century and, as fresh editions appeared, constantly added new illustrations and anecdotes without changing his basic theories. Here, with brief examples, we have the simple but convincing explanations of things that are familiar to everybody: 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'.

Intriguing, Logical, and Plausible (!)

This is a fantastic, captivating book. The theories and ideas outlined in "Psychopathology of Everyday Life" are logical and seem more applicable, plausible, and realistic (i.e. more easily seen in everyday life) than some of Freud's other theories. Highly recommended for anyone interested in psychology, character, human behavior, or Freud's work. Covers a lot about human memory. A very good resource to have.

Intricate book

It is an intricate book for those readers who love Psychology and want to discover more. The content is difficult to comprehend because Freud used a terminology that is easy to grasp by psychologists/psychiatrists. You will need another source (dictionary, person in the domain of Psych)to help you understand what he is talking about. However,I loved "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" and I recommend to all to buy it. As I mentioned, it is an intricate book!!

Easy for the lay reader to understand

The republication of this authorized English edition which appeared in 1914 will enable libraries to replace aging volumes with a fresh, affordable paperwork. This remains one of Freud's most widely recognized titles, blending anecdotal accounts with his personal experience and psychological insights. His first-person, chatty tone makes it easy for the lay reader to understand his concepts of underlying psychological influences.

The Unconscious' work trough parapraxes (faulty actions)

This book may be read as a necessary sequel to Freud's major opus The Interpretation of Dreams, cause the object of the two are the same, that is, to demonstrate trough a lot of very detailed personal and third person's examples, how the unconscious work, or even better, how it betrays itself trough its concealed (condensed and displaced) actions shown in our parapraxis of everyday. Parapraxis is a term which could be translated into faulty acts, which are, for instance, "slips of the tongue", "slips of the pen", misreadings, mislayings of objects, undeliberate forgetness of sentences, names and places, etc ... The book is written in a very casual style and one is again admired how could such a genius as Freud convey his ideas in such an easy style. Why no 4 stars? Because I think this book is not so fascinating as The Interpretation of Dreams, an opus which deserves 5 stars.