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    What is the German word Sigmund Freud used to describe the parapraxis often exhibited by his patients?

    Question #85261. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Sep 02 07 11:23 PM)


    davejacobs

    		The Freudian slip is named after Sigmund Freud, who described the phenomenon he called Fehlleistung (literally meaning "faulty action" in German, but termed as parapraxis in English) in his 1901 book The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip

    Sep 03 07, 1:09 AM

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