Slip Number 2025-09
Date: February 28, 2025
- Utterance:
"I'm Bobby's son."
- Target:
"I'm Bobby's father."
- Discussion:
This is a nice, straight-forward semantically mediated lexical slip.
There's no need to go mucking through the subconscious mind for a Freudian explanation
when the simpler explanation is available. 'son' and 'father' are words that are closely related in meaning.
Freudian slips can occur, but you should have a strong
case before invoking that sort of thing.