Many of us are familiar with the concept of parapexes , but are simply unfamiliar with the technical name given to them by Freud. The concept is so common that it was the focus of one of his most popular works, "Psychopathology of Everyday Life." Freud would have never guessed that parapraxes would become a concept so popular that they would be given his namesake: Freudian Slips.
             Freud argued that Freudian Slips were those things that were commonly referred to as mistakes, but were actually subconscious truths and intentions. There are many different types of Freudian Slips, but the types we are most familiar with are misspeakings, or slips of the tongue. An example of this type of Freudian Slips might be when a man is talking to a woman whom he feels sexual desire for, and instead of saying "organism," says "orgasm." Other then being an embarrassing situation, what happened was his desire, which he may have subconsciously repressed, came out in his words. Sometimes you may not even notice that you have made such a mistake, but it is often very evident to those who hear it. The meaning behind Freudian Slips is usually quite clear, and not difficult to interpret. Freudian Slips quite similar to this are miswritings and mistypings, which operate the same way as misspeakings in that you express a subconscious thought while you communicate.
             The act of forgetting, Freud says, is like the act of repression; in repression, you either intentional or subconsciously forgets something as a defense mechanism, because the memory of such a thing causes great grief. Even in such instances as the forgetting of someone's name when speaking to them, Freud contends that, "by the side of simple cases where proper names are forgotten there is a type of forgetting which is motivated by repression." However, the forgetting of a name is not the only forgetting which falls under the classification of Freudian Slips. The misplacing of an item, f...