The mechanism underlying everyday errors is held to be similar to that underlying serious mental disturbances such as hysteria and allied neuroses¶

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Subclaims¶

q1 i? The performances in question are determined by unconscious motives, and their mechanism is similar to that which Freud attributes to hysteria and allied neuroses. → Mayer 1911

Evidence¶

Mayer 1911¶

Mayer, H. (1911). The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. American Journal of Psychology, 22, 477-527. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1412853

q1 · i? · theoretical · r?

Review summarizes the psychoanalytic claim that psycho-analysis shows everyday performances are "determined by motives or factors of which we were not aware," with a mechanism similar to that of hysteria and allied neuroses. Theoretical, no data reported.

"Psycho-analysis shows that the perform- ances in question have been determined by motives or factors of which we were not aware during their occurrence. The mechanism underlying them, therefore, is similar to that which underlies, accord- ing to Freud, the more serious disturbances of mental life, like hys- teria and allied neuroses"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Appreciating everyday errors is held to be important for understanding how decisions and judgments are formed and as evidence of psychical determinism — related
• Everyday mental errors are determined by unconscious motives rather than chance, according to the psychoanalytic argument reviewed — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)