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. ---------------------------------------- > 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 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
