Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Sigmund Freud, the founding figure of psychoanalysis, wrote this quietly unsettling book about the strange machinery humming beneath our ordinary lives. Why do we forget a name moments after hearing it? Why do we say precisely the wrong thing at the worst possible moment? Freud's answer, as ever, points inward. The unconscious, he argues, is never truly silent. It speaks through our blunders. This book examines those small, seemingly trivial errors, slips of the tongue, lapses in memory, mislaid objects, and finds in them a surprisingly rich psychological significance. It's a book that makes you second-guess yourself in the best possible way. The case studies Freud draws on are vivid and oddly relatable, grounding his theoretical ideas in recognisable human behaviour rather than clinical abstraction. Readers with a serious interest in psychology will find it an important foundational text, but it's also genuinely accessible to anyone curious about why people think and act as they do. Thought-provoking without being impenetrable, it remains one of Freud's more readable works, and a useful entry point into psychoanalytic thinking for students and general readers alike.
- Author: Sigmund Freud
- Publisher: Fingerprint! Publishing
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- ISBN: 978-9354402203
- Pages: 240 pages