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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--Freudian slip This week's theme: eponyms. Freudian slip (FROI-dee-uhn slip) noun An error that reveals someone's subconscious mind. [After Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, who proposed the idea.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "A Freudian slip on a boyfriend's postcard puts Lavigne in a jealous rage because her lover's inscription read, 'I wish you were her' (rather than 'here' -- get it?)." Lavigne Embraces Simplicity; Worcester Telegram & Gazette (Massachusetts); Apr 29, 2007. X-Bonus The crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness, and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock. -Margaret Halsey, novelist (1910-1997)

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