[Ads-l] Antedating of "Freudian Slip"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sat Jan 29 15:39:07 UTC 2022


Freudian slip (OED 1959)

1927 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 14 Oct. 2/6 (Newspapers.com)  Take Dr. Davis, for instance. She made what we psychologists call a Freudian slip.

Fred Shapiro

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