Freud felt like your subconscious mind ruled your emotions. A Freudian slip is when your subconscious thoughts are accidentally spoken by you in a sentence where you meant to say something else.

In general use? It's when a person has any accidental slip of the tongue. Most like to associate it when it involves hidden motives or a sexual innuendo by mistake. The word "Freudian", derives from the name of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.

I'm very interested in the thoery of psychoanalysis worked out by Freud. But my psychological teacher told me his writting was profound and abstruse accessible.

Hi Richard , thanks for your explanation and sample sentences for me. I got it. Hi Luis , thanks for your suggestions , I will try to read it. Thank you both.

A "Freudian slip" is used to refer to any mistake in speech which reveals feelings or thoughts a person does not want to reveal or show. Example 1: A man calls his wife by the name of his mistress. Example 2: A student and his photography teacher had a mutual crush on each other. His teacher made an embarrassing slip by asking him to step in to the "bed" with her, when she was in fact asking him to step into the hall. Example 3: A person calls his wife "mom" because he subconsciously thinks of her like his mom. Example 4: A person expecting a dinner guest with a large nose reminds himself to avoid making any reference to noses at dinner. Then dinner comes and he says "Pass the nose" instead of "Pass the salt". People on average make such slips about two to three times a week, according to one investigation by Dr.James Reason at the university of Manchester in England.