If you come to a chapter that seems to be driving the same point home too many times, save yourself the effort and flip through to the end of the chapter to see if there are any concluding remarks, then move on. Many chapters contain endless examples (as many as fifty) these could easily have been reduced to one or two. Top Tip before you read the book for yourself: This book could easily have an abridged version. I hope it prompts you to explore this psychology great further for yourself.įor my other Freud Book Summaries and Guides, see: In this article, I have compiled chapter summaries for Freud’s book The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) – including key quotes and my personal observations. However, it took Freud with his newfound understanding of the unconscious to fully explore this concept giving rise to what we have come to know as a “Freudian Slip”. The idea that a person’s behaviours and expressions inadvertently give away underlying thoughts or motives is not new. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, we hear the famous line “The lady doth protest too much, methinks”, implying that the Player Queen’s protestations of love and fidelity are too excessive to be believed.
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