George H. W. Bush once made the following classic Freudian slip in a public speech:
"For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan, and I'm proud to have been his partner. We've had triumphs. We've made some mistakes. We've had some sex -- setbacks." When the audience erupts in laughter, you can't help but feel a little bad for the guy, who appears to have a minor heart-attack if you watch his chest closely (see the
video here).
Rather than revealing that Bush unconsciously wished to have intimate relations with Reagan, as a
Freudian interpretation might suggest, this slip was more likely an example of a speech error called a
deletion, which involves omitting a word or part of a word. In this case, "ba" was inadvertently omitted from "setbacks." Speech errors like this are
common (though generally less embarrassing), and they are especially likely to occur when people are
tired, nervous, or otherwise not at their peak level of cognitive functioning.
Linguists argue that speech errors reflect the complex way that language is organized and produced, and are unlikely to reflect repressed desires or conflicts.
But that doesn't mean that speech errors are always psychologically meaningless.Read More->
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