This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase 'Freudian slip'.
It also builds up a strong social history of Vienna and the middle-class social
milieu of Freud and his patients. Through a series of case histories, some no lo
nger than a few lines long, Freud explores how it is that normal people make sli
ps of speech, writing, reading and remembering in their everyday life, and revea
ls what it is that they betray about the existence of a sub-text or subliminal m
otive to our conscious actions.
