In philology , a lapsus ( Latin for "lapse, slip, error") is an involuntary mistake made while writing or speaking.
5-446: Several, see text Curetus ( lapsus ) Phaedra Horsfield, 1829 Anops Boisduval, 1836 Curetis , the sunbeams , is a genus of gossamer-winged butterflies (Lycaenidae) from Southeast Asia . They are presently the only genus in the subfamily Curetinae . This Lycaenidae -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lapsus In 1895 an investigation into verbal slips
10-482: A lapsus represents a bungled act that hides an unconscious desire: “the phenomena can be traced back to incompletely suppressed psychical material...pushed away by consciousness”. Jacques Lacan would thoroughly endorse the Freudian interpretation of unconscious motivation in the slip, arguing that “in the lapsus it is...clear that every unsuccessful act is a successful, not to say 'well-turned', discourse”. In
15-440: The role of familiar associations and similarities of words and sounds in producing the lapsus. Freud objected that such factors did not cause but only " favour slips of the tongue...in the immense majority of cases my speech is not disturbed by the circumstance that the words I am using recall others with a similar sound...or that familiar associations branch off from them (emphasis copied from original)". Timpanaro later reignited
20-407: The seventies Sebastiano Timpanaro would controversially take up the question again, by offering a mechanistic explanation of all such slips, in opposition to Freud's theories. In literature, a number of different types of lapsus are named depending on context: Slips of the tongue can happen on any level: Each of these five types of error may take various forms: Meringer and Mayer highlighted
25-490: Was undertaken by a philologist and a psychologist, Rudolf Meringer and Karl Mayer , who collected many examples and divided them into separate types. Freud was to become interested in such mistakes from 1897 onwards, developing an interpretation of slips in terms of their unconscious meaning. Subsequently, followers of his like Ernest Jones developed the theme of lapsus in connection with writing, typing, and misprints. According to Freud 's early psychoanalytic theory ,
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