Anti-psychiatry: Why Freudian Slips are NOT Give-Aways.

I just yelled "You ARE old, Pumpkin!" after expending some energy to talk to Mother, though voluntarily this time.

At first I thought to make a be-laboured joke, saying, "Not you, Mom,"

And then I realised:

The only reason that I considered that alternate possibility and meaning was because the first clause could have been miss-Heard to have the meaning.

So when the Freudians attack us for our unconscious slips, it is only because the mind deliberately tries NOT to say all the wrong things[(] that we said that.[)]* So when they attack us for our "true meanings" they are in FACT exploiting the weakness of a tired and exhausted, anxious mind, faced with judgement, to discern everything that it WANTS to say from every thing that it wants NOT to say. The latter is a direct reaction to the questioner, and nothing else.

* After the thought, it is parenthetical. Parenthetically after the thought. Dans cors dans coeur.

Tourette's would thus be an intense surrender of the tight-rope walk.

Dmitry.(!!!!!!!!**)

** not quite contextual, for you asked me to follow up UNINTERESTING things with exclamations.

[[Dm.A.A.]]