Why do
our minds have Freudian slips?
Freudian
slips - A Freudian slip, also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring
due to the interference of some unconscious, subdued wish, conflict, or train of thought. The
concept is thus part of classical psychoanalysis.
People have always thought that Freudian slips were the
unconscious mind telling what the speaker actually wants. For example if you
accidently call your lover and exes name it is assumed that you were thinking
of her. This is called a Freudian slip, or a slip of the tongue.
Slips of the
tongue are almost inevitable. For every 1,000 words spoken, we make one or two
errors. Considering that the average pace of speech is 150 words a minute, a
slip is bound to occur about once every seven minutes of continuous talk. Each
day, most of us make somewhere between 7 and 22 verbal slips.
The unconscious mind is the core of our feelings, thoughts, urges,
and memories of which people are unaware. Often these thoughts are unpleasant
or not able to be expressed, such as feelings of pain, anxiety, or conflict.
But our unconscious minds continue to influence our behavior, which is the
reason for our Freudian slips when talking, our unconscious hand gestures, also
our unconscious facial expressions. Most of which we don’t even realize are
happening.
Science has dis proven the popular culture idea of Freudian slip. Popular
culture says that the reason for your tongue slip was that, that thing was on
your mind. Modern science and psychology has dis proven this idea of a Freudian
slip but it still lives on.
The scientific reason for these slips of the tongues are now
believed to be from the unconscious mind. Slips may be due to inattention, incomplete sense
data or insufficient knowledge. Secondly, they may be due to the existence of
some local response pattern that is strongly primed by its prior usage, recent
activation or emotional change or by the situation calling conditions.
