FREUDIAN SLIPS
Well, Tim and I both study/ied Psychology at USD, so we would be terrible students if we didn't use some psychology on our page!Sigmund Freud was one of Psychology's dear fathers. He believed that people (ALL people, not just guys) eat, sleep, and breathe sex. He was/is famous for his Psychosexual Stages of Development, Psychoanalysis, and Dream Interpretation, to name a few things.
Everyone is convinced he was full of shit, mostly because he was a cocaine addict until he realized it was bad. Anyway.
Freudian Slips, AKA Slip-of-the-Tongues:
When you say something wrong (like mix words up, spell them wrong, etc), they are supposed to have some inner sexual meaning (according to Freud...I just think they are funny). For example, a man who is on vacation sends his wife a postcard that reads:
"Wish you were her."
Naturally, he meant to say "here" but according to Freud, this man is cheating on his wife.
This is a table explaining what's going on in your head when you say mixed up phrases. It's not important to know what morphemes and phonemes are, but in a nutshell, they are parts of words.
So, what's the point? The point is, we want to know your smooth lines that have been mixed up horribly.
Here's an example of something I've said:
"Hey, that guy looks like Egg McMahon!" Egg McMuffin + Ed McMahon
Here's what we've gotten so far from our viewers:
farrah's slip:
"worked in a shoe store, i was trying to get that "second sale". cute guy came up to counter and i asked: "would you like to get some sex (socks) with that". only it was more of a combination of sock and sex...kind of like see--oocks."
***I think Freud would have giggled at you, Farrah.***
pf's slip:
"A woman I work with walked into the room I was in an exclaimed "I can't wait to get home, I'm going to put my panties in the ground" She corrected herself "pansies in the ground" Did she mean something else?"
***Maybe she usually does laundry when she goes home, or 'panties' is just a more familiar word to her. I'll consult Tim when he's here and see what he thinks.***
Natalie's slip:
"'Vice Prisoner' instead of Vice Principal"
***Well, well, well. Sounds to me like this VP isn't so nice. Luckily, I see no sexual innuendo.***
sasha's slip:
"get your fat" (meant to say "get your feet"
***Were you talking to an obese person at the time? That would sure be an implication. Though I must say I'm a little concerned that whoever you were talking to didn't already have their feet with them!***
P's Slip:
"Lovely to meAt you too"
***I do that kind of stuff all the time. Typing slips seem to be a different kind of thing, but may still have some sort of meaning. In this case, you may just be used to typing 'meat' or other 'ea' words. I mix 'Tim' and 'time' up constantly.***
Melissa's Slip:
"I said wait a sex. Instead of, wait a sec."
***This, of course, is what Freud was talking about. Were you talking to someone of the opposite sex, someone you may have been interested in? Then again, you may have just been thinking "I'll be a few seconds," or something at the same time, so it came out really weird.***
Daniel's Slip:
"daddy"
***My assumption is that you referred to someone else as your dad. I hear that (do that) a lot, and I think it comes from just being in same sorts of situations with other people that are parent-like, such as talking with a teacher. If it's something you are used to doing all the time (calling your dad "daddy"), then it happens.***
Madie's Slip:
"I hare you"
***Not totally sure if this was a typing error or a speaking error, but yeah, sometimes our heads get so mixed up, that we just start pulling random words out of nowhere! For me, a lot of errors like this are me thinking of two different words at once, and then when it came time to use one, my brain didn't make up its mind in time.***