Psychopathology of Everyday Life. In a new, complete translation!

First published in 1901, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life is an early book by Sigmund Freud that was extremely popular with the general public. It was one of the most important works in his scientific biography and one of the key works in the history of psychoanalysis; Jacques Lacan considered it one of the most important works in history for understanding the unconscious. Here, Freud uses numerous examples, mostly drawn from his own life and the lives of colleagues and friends, to convincingly demonstrate how seemingly random errors – slips of the tongue, mishearings, forgetting names, hiding objects, minor absurdities, and so on – reveal to us what lies deep in our unconscious: our repressed desires. In a world where the capacity for reflection and honesty with oneself are rarer than we would like, this book, fascinating and impartial, remains essential reading for anyone willing to look within and meet the gaze of their own “I”. During Freud's lifetime, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life was reprinted several times, and each time he supplemented it with new examples and considerations. We are publishing a new, complete translation of this classic work.