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Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Sigmund Freud
A LibriVox volunteer audio reading of Freud's book on slips of the tongue, forgetting and everyday mental errors.
Freud wrote this book; the recording lets students hear its text read aloud in English translation.
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What it is
This is a modern volunteer audio reading, made by a LibriVox reader, of Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud, in A. A. Brill's English translation. The recording is not Freud's own voice; it is a public-domain reading recorded long after his death.
Why it matters
The book itself, written by Freud, argues that small mistakes like forgetting a name or misspeaking are not random but have hidden meaning, connecting ordinary mental life to his theory of the unconscious. It is one of the works that spread psychoanalysis to a wider public.
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- Why might hearing a text read aloud feel different from reading it yourself?
- What does it mean that this voice is a volunteer, not Freud?
- Why might Freud have chosen everyday mistakes, rather than dreams, as his subject here?
This book is part of the curated material that grounds the AI version of Sigmund Freud on Humy.ai — when students ask about related events, the AI can quote it and cite it.
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