Please note that when I dashed down the name "Saul Rosenberg" instead of
"Saul Rosenzweig" it was not a "Freudian slip" (though I would be
interested to hear suggestions for my unconscious motivation had it been
such)! It was an example of a linguistic notion called "banalisation"
(okay, banalization), the replacement of a correct word or name by a more
familiar similar one. See Sebastiano Timpanaro, *The Freudian Slip:
Psychoanalysis and Textual Criticism* (1976).

Pity Freud hadn't read Timpanaro's book before he wrote up his analysis of
the famous "aliquis" slip of the tongue in *The Psychopathology of
Everyday Life* (1901). It could have saved him seven pages of writing
(Timpanaro, 1976, pp. 29-40). Another example of Freud's failing to pay
heed to criticism of his analytic procedures, though in this case he had a
pretty good excuse. -:)

Allen E. 

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> Mon, 09 May 2005 19:49:51 -0400
> Author: Scott Lilienfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Was freud a Scientist?

> Chris et al.: I assume that the correspondence to which Todd refers is 
> the famous 1934 exchange between the American psychologist (of 
> Washington University) Saul Rosenzweig (who passed away last year) and 
> Sigmund Freud.  Rosenzweig sent Freud a description of some experimental
> work he had conducted that appeared to verify the existence of 
> repression, and Freud responded by informing Rosenzweig that his 
> interesting work was in essence an act of supererogation given the 
> enormous mountain of evidence already available to corroborate 
> psychoanalytic propositions. 
> 
>      Here's a brief description that I fished off a Web Site:
> 
> In a letter written in 1934 to the American psychologist Saul Rosenzweig
> Freud reacts to the suggestion to perform experimental test of 
> psychoanalytic assertions with some polite words but then continues:
> 
>     "The wealth of dependable observations on which these assertions
>     rest make them independent of experimental verification. Still, they
>     can do no harm."
> 
> ....Scott

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