OT Dr. Freud (was Re: /s/ vs /z/ was CONLANG pitch accent (was Re: NATLANG: pitch accent question)

Christophe wrote:

> En réponse à Muke Tever :
>
> >That's a "Freudian slip" in English... (jocularly defined as "where you
> >say one
> >thing, but mean your mother")
>
> LOL.
>
> Interesting. I knew Freud had studied them, but in France they were
> considered meaningful way before he put his nose in them (the expression
> "lapsus révélateur" is pretty old IIRC). I didn't expect them to be
> associated to Freud...
>
IIRC the young  Freud studied in France with early developers of what became
"psychoanalytic" theory, and could have picked up the idea then. Slips of
the tongue, as you know, are dealt with in detail in one of his (early?)
papers.