Freudian slip

in the popular understanding of psychoanalytic theory, an unconscious error or oversight in writing, speech, or action that is held to be caused by unacceptable impulses breaking through the ego’s defenses and exposing the individual’s true wishes or feelings. See parapraxis; slip of the tongue; symptomatic act. [Sigmund Freud]

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January 19th 2025

absolute scotoma

see scotoma.