Hidden Meanings in Mistakes Freud’s Psychopathology of Everyday Life demonstrates that unconscious processes intrude constantly into normal waking consciousness, not just in clinical neurosis but in the daily experience of everyone. The small errors you make, the things you forget, the objects you lose, the accidents that seem random, all of these reveal unconscious wishes and conflicts. There is no sharp division between the mentally ill and the mentally healthy. We all exhibit the same mechanisms, the same compromises between conscious intention and unconscious desire. The difference is degree, not kind. The book catalogs hundreds of examples from Freud’s own...