ABSTRACT
This chapter studies adult speech errors and shows how these are constructed by the mechanisms of dreamwork, especially displacement, condensation, overdetermination, and secondary revision. It studies linguistic parapraxes—oral, written, and auditory—in this context, as well as embodied parapraxes (bungled actions), i.e., those that demonstrate structural similarities between language and embodied cognition. These similarities anticipate later chapters that show the relationship between linguistic and kinetic (physical) structures. The chapter shows, as well, the structural similarities between speech errors and wit/humor along the sequence of conscious–preconscious–consciousness. It maintains the perspective that unconscious and preconscious modes of thought are continually present in language production and processing.
