Freud's Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901), in which
pathology is brought into the everyday,
and by which the particular nature of
the psyche is elucidated.
Freud points to such phenomena as dreams,
forgetfulness, parapraxes (e.g., slips of the tongue), and a host of other
similarly manifest symptoms to make his case for the existence of an
unconscious that refuses to be explained or contained by consciousness. In
other words, the Freudian subject is in part at the behest of unconscious urges
that steal their way into daily life,
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