Freudian Slips

[MetalPants]

I sure hope I'm not the only one this board who has ever had a Freudian slip. Yesterday, I went to a coworker meaning to tell her the standard hi how are you today, and instead told her that she was beautiful. So yeah, I think we both blushed about that one and had a good laugh.

So c'mon folks, share your best (worst) slips.

 

[T'Baio]

That's...not really a Freudian slip, by the sounds of that description.

 

[marillion]

Have to agree with T'Baio, but I have a similar thing... I was talking with a female coworker on the phone and in the midst of the conversation, kind of lost track of what we were talking about.. I remembered I had to call my wife about something and started thinking about that.. As the conversation with the coworker wrapped up and we were about to hang up, I said.. "Ok.. Love you"... and then proceeded to stammer through an apology and explination as she laughed..

I generally think of Freudian slips as something that could be followed up with "That's what she said.."

 

[sojourner]

Yeah, I generally think of a Freudian slip as the accidental replacement of a word in conversation with the new word having some embarrassing context itself with those involved.

Usually involving men making unintended comments about female anatomy.

 

[FPAlpha]

That's...not really a Freudian slip, by the sounds of that description.

Sounds like one to me.. he wants to say something but in his mind has a different phrase and that comes out.

 

[Brent]

I was talking to someone about my sister, and had a Freudian slip and called her my "mom" instead of my "sister" replaced the word sister with mom, that was crazy, I was thinking about my sister but "mom" came out instead all by itself, i quickly recovered and was quite embarrassed, the other party laughed

 

[auntiehill]

When I was a teenager, I had a friend who was terrified of swimming in the ocean---she'd seen "Jaws" once too often. However, she agreed to go to the beach with us. It took much coaxing and teasing to get her into the water, even just knee deep.

As we're splashing about in the brown water of Galveston bay (yuck), I made some rude joke or other, and she pretended to be offended. She look at me and said, "Hill! I'm sharked!"

She of course meant to say "shocked" but in true Freudian fashion, it came out "sharked."

 

[ManOnTheWave]

'Round the time of the first cold front of the winter season, I'll hear, "It's nipply out." Every year. I've heard it so often, I think we should just replace one word with the other.

 

[trekkiedane]

Tremendously popular (and funny) South African day-strip called Madam & Eve -about a white suburban woman and her black (of course) maid, Eve.

Madam, though generally speaking quite a sensible woman, has a lot of problems coping with the changes that happened in South Africa and is therefore seeking the help of a psychiatrist...

(take a look at the date!)

I think this is the best 'Freudian slip-joke' I've ever read!

 

[T'Baio]

That's...not really a Freudian slip, by the sounds of that description.

Sounds like one to me.. he wants to say something but in his mind has a different phrase and that comes out.

A Freudian slip is an error in your intended meaning that occurs due to an unconscious inference of your desires coming to your conscious interaction due to it's semantic similarity and presenting in your speech. It's also called a parapraxis. An example would be calling your current girlfriend by an ex-girlfriend's name.

Wanting to say "hi" to someone, but instead saying "you're beautiful" doesn't really qualify as a Freudian slip as it has no semantic similarity. Most modern psychologists don't even consider it an act of the unconscious anymore, but merely an error in cognition, a runaway train in grammar production taking the wrong synaptic track, hence the similarity. And the example above, when you're talking to someone but thinking about your wife and accidentally say "I love you" at the end of the conversation is also not a Freudian slip. That's mere difficulty in concentration and remaining focused on the task at hand.

 

[Holdfast]

Want to know the oldest joke in the psychotherapist's book?

I was having dinner with my wife and meant to ask her to pass the salt, but instead it came out: "You bitch, you ruined my life!"

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ Is that the breast you can do?

 

[scotpens]

^^ Is that the breast you can do?

That's like the old joke about the well-endowed girl at the airline ticket counter. A man walks up and asks for two pickets to Tittsburgh.

Which is not only a Freudian slip, it's also a spoonerism.

'Round the time of the first cold front of the winter season, I'll hear, “It's nipply out.” Every year. I've heard it so often, I think we should just replace one word with the other.

In that case, it would no longer be a Freudian slip but an eggcorn (like “butt naked” instead of “buck naked”).

Is there such a thing as a Freudian typo? I was once typesetting some business cards for a woman I found rather unpleasant to deal with. Quite unconsciously, I typed in her title as “Accunt Executive” instead of “Account Executive.” Fortunately the error was caught before she proofed it!

 

[sojourner]

'Round the time of the first cold front of the winter season, I'll hear, "It's nipply out." Every year. I've heard it so often, I think we should just replace one word with the other.

That's usually said intentionally, definitely not a slip.

 

[thestrangequark]

^As in, "It's a tit bit nipply out hear, we breast be going in. Hope they turned the hooters on."

 

[Sephiroth]

I replace words frequently in speech, duno why,maybe i'm insane

 

[ManOnTheWave]

'Round the time of the first cold front of the winter season, I'll hear, "It's nipply out." Every year. I've heard it so often, I think we should just replace one word with the other.

That's usually said intentionally, definitely not a slip.

While I have certainly heard it said intentionally, it is not always. I find it a very common mistake even if it is like something right out of a sitcom. And just about any slip has been faked for comedic effect.

In that case, it would no longer be a Freudian slip but an eggcorn (like “butt naked” instead of “buck naked”).

There's a word for that?

 

[scotpens]

In that case, it would no longer be a Freudian slip but an eggcorn (like “butt naked” instead of “buck naked”).

There's a word for that?

Eggcorn

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Highlarious.

 

[SVD]

When I'm felling goofy, I'll use a word/phrase that starts with the smaller word that would normally go into the sentence.

e.g.:
"First things first, we have to mix master the concrete"

Talking to myself: "that goes there, dat goes dare, dare's dat 'n dat 'n dat's da name u dat tune"

I'll spell something out on an odd manner:

"Yowtch! h-o-t-t _ s-t-u-p-f"