ABSTRACT
It may be said of all the manifold phenomena described by Freud in his Psychopathology of Everyday Life that they are contrary to the conscious intentions of the person concerned. The tendency running counter to conscious intention, however, takes a different course in various forms of mistakes. Mistakes might be divided into two categories according to their effects; namely, those in which the tendency that is rejected by the conscious is stifled, and those in which it achieves partial expression. Freud has already discerned the significance of such tendencies. He finds that this playing with words is also occasionally carried out involuntarily. It is noteworthy, however, that an instinctual impulse is converted into a defensive, over-compensating phenomenon. After an anxiety-dream has been analysed it is not the anxiety, defence which seems to be the essential element in the dream, but rather the impulse of the dreamer which the dream seeks to fulfil; this is true whether the wish-fulfilment is achieved.
