Do Freudian Slips Mean Anything?

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  • Freudian slips are actually an artifact of how your brain processes language!
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Комментарии • 959

  • @RandallStephens397
    @RandallStephens397 7 лет назад +2260

    Freudian Slips: Where you mean one thing and say your mother.

    • @valeriobertoncello1809
      @valeriobertoncello1809 7 лет назад +52

      stop this joke before it spreads further

    • @cholten99
      @cholten99 7 лет назад +22

      I doubt that's original - but if it is then major props to you sir! :-)

    • @jonathanhenderson7087
      @jonathanhenderson7087 7 лет назад +67

      it sucks when you're thinking something and then say the thong wring.

    • @wardogs667
      @wardogs667 7 лет назад +9

      and here i read "...and say another." :D

    • @bdf2718
      @bdf2718 7 лет назад +19

      +haggusmcgee That was a Freudian slit.

  • @Nir7r0us0xide
    @Nir7r0us0xide 7 лет назад +881

    I had a Freudian slip the other day. I was eating dinner with my wife and I meant to say, "Please pass the salt," but what I actually said was, "YOU'RE RUINING MY LIFE YOU INSUFFERABLE SHREW!"

    • @neilisbored2177
      @neilisbored2177 7 лет назад +31

      I once tried to say "Hi", but somehow it came out as "2147483647 is the maximum number for a 32-bit integer". This is what happens when you watch pannenkoek2012 a lot.

    • @hockeygirlbeth
      @hockeygirlbeth 6 лет назад +3

      Nice ref

    • @theoverseer393
      @theoverseer393 5 лет назад +8

      I think you have TIC TACS
      uh i mean, tourettes

    • @HellGod67
      @HellGod67 5 лет назад +8

      It's called bipolar or turrets

    • @vincentheart2841
      @vincentheart2841 5 лет назад +2

      Hahahahahahhahahahahahahahha GOLD.

  • @bigghoss762
    @bigghoss762 7 лет назад +519

    I have the opposite problem. I ask for a table for sex but everyone thinks its a Freudian slip. I really am looking for a sturdy table to have intercourse on.

  • @AbudBakri
    @AbudBakri 7 лет назад +565

    This is a cool video dad...I mean Hank.

    • @adolfodef
      @adolfodef 7 лет назад +92

      I mean Hunk... ehh....

    • @johnarbuckle2619
      @johnarbuckle2619 7 лет назад +5

      Dr.StickFigure stop chasing me around !!!

    • @Mony-g5h
      @Mony-g5h Год назад

      I mean daddy

  • @crazytsvetock1
    @crazytsvetock1 7 лет назад +68

    I think some Freudian slips do mean something. Not necessarily hidden desires, but what your mind is used to doing. These slips happen when your brain goes into "automatic" mode and says something it doesn't really mean. For example, often when my dad has to explain something to me over and over again (because I don't get it) and he gets exasperated, he calls me by my mother's name, because he usual finds himself in a similar situation with her. Anyways, those are just my two cents.

  • @hypergiantstar1834
    @hypergiantstar1834 7 лет назад +165

    When he blurred the table lol

    • @robinchesterfield42
      @robinchesterfield42 6 лет назад

      Unfortunately I've seen the early episodes of "WTFIWWY?", so that immediately brought that story to mind...about the guy...who made SIX DVD'S WORTH of...yeah. Bleh. Thanks, Sci-Show! Before the blur I thought the Freudian slipper just wanted a table to have sex _on_! :P

  • @PikaPetey
    @PikaPetey 7 лет назад +101

    if i took as many drugs that Sigmund Freud did, i'd be wacky too

    • @sigmundfreud1808
      @sigmundfreud1808 7 лет назад +2

      Pikapetey Animations cocaine is a medical drug

    • @ChrisD__
      @ChrisD__ 3 года назад

      You aren't wacky?

    • @tristanlj3409
      @tristanlj3409 3 года назад

      @@sigmundfreud1808 exactly what someone like you would say😡

    • @atlasadonis3752
      @atlasadonis3752 3 года назад

      So no sugar or caffeine for you?

  • @Direblade11
    @Direblade11 7 лет назад +907

    Oh you should do a video on why students have to learn fucking EVERYTHING about Freud even though he's wrong. It's a question I could never get the answer to.

    • @TheWolfgangGrimmer
      @TheWolfgangGrimmer 7 лет назад +48

      Agreed...

    • @luisazul6668
      @luisazul6668 7 лет назад +3

      Direblade11 very soon it won't be that way no more

    • @justinward3679
      @justinward3679 7 лет назад +108

      Been wondering this too, I mean flat earth theory isn't taught in geography.

    • @Robstar100
      @Robstar100 7 лет назад +22

      what fucking geography class do you go to?!

    • @Direblade11
      @Direblade11 7 лет назад +12

      I know Psychoanalytic therapy works but it isn't even 100% Freud and it relies on the pseudo effect that is trusting a therapist. Psychoanalistic therapy is still, however, a completely valid method somewhat akin to hypnotism. It relies on belief so the people asking for it will generally have it work for them.

  • @lprocks555
    @lprocks555 7 лет назад +1383

    i'll take a hundred videos about how freud was wrong about everything, thank you

    • @luisazul6668
      @luisazul6668 7 лет назад +7

      likeappletrees me too!!!!!
      please hahhahahha

    • @CherylMcMinorrr
      @CherylMcMinorrr 7 лет назад +2

      same

    • @KnightRaymund
      @KnightRaymund 7 лет назад +3

      likeappletrees works for me

    • @ThisIsReMarkable
      @ThisIsReMarkable 7 лет назад +3

      Answer: Daily Double!

    • @ttaaddoo111
      @ttaaddoo111 7 лет назад +71

      Oh my god, would you positivists please get over yourselves!
      Are really going to try to claim that Freud's emphasis on early childhood was worthless? This is the only bulletpoint, which won't be referencing research, as this claim is beyond absurd, and one which I won't entertain challenging...
      If the unconscious not "exist", how will you explain the uncountable instances if irrational, self-destructive, and so on, behaviour many people exhitit? (Shevrin & Dickman, 1980, one among countless studies regarding this concept)
      Only questionable support seems to have been found for his psychosexual stages, Oedipus Complex and especially the Electra Complex (Hunt,1979)
      Do you have a superiour frame of explanation for his defense mechanisms, as, as I have been taught, they (although repression is quite disputed) are possibly his most solid contribution to the field of psychology (Silverman, 1976; Cramer, 2000; Cassidy, 1988, and i really could go on...)
      Anxiety has been found to be very detrimental to physical and psychological health (do i really need a citation? Ok... Suinn, 2001)
      And yes, when I mentioned that I have been taught, it means that I ACTUALLY go to a university and did not simply come to this RUclips-page to spout nonsense. Sorry for the hostility, but I can hardly imagine you people studying psychology while propogating such nonsense. It may neither have been proper of me to call you positivists, but that is quite simply the vibe, I am getting. I hope I have enlightened some of you.

  • @jeffreybernath6627
    @jeffreybernath6627 7 лет назад +171

    Freud was wrong about a lot, yes. But very importantly, he popularized "the talking cure," the idea that talking about problems can be helpful in their resolution. (Although he was not the first to notice this.) The talking cure is the basis of most kinds of psychotherapy, and its utility cannot be understated.

    • @gnarthdarkanen7464
      @gnarthdarkanen7464 7 лет назад +18

      Jeffrey Bernath, agreed... That's the one point about Freud I can actually appreciate.
      Today, unfortunately, there are too many who undervalue "the talking cure" to the point that they claim it's useless. The alternative is to drug the 'patient' into submission and eventually just lock them away because the drugs never actually solve anything.

    • @Xantheinee
      @Xantheinee 7 лет назад +4

      gnarth d'arkanen drugs do work, they just don't work as well if a talking therapy isn't given as well.

    • @gnarthdarkanen7464
      @gnarthdarkanen7464 7 лет назад +6

      Jess Icaa... and to be completely honest, at least some times, drugs can even be warranted. However, what is trending at the moment seems to be a huge great fandom for more drugs and more drugs instead of bothering to try to face your own problems (even with help)...
      My reservation on drugs originates from noticing that very rarely (if ever at all) do they actually "cure" anything or anyone. I've watched (instead) the far greater tendency for a basically strong and decent person start with "talking therapy" for one problem he or she simply didn't have a contextual solution for (good or bad) and eventually accept the (probably well meant) aid of an anti-depressant or some other drug to assist... Years later, the only difference is this same strong person is nearly catatonic without the drugs, and the dosages have steadily climbed. Sometimes the talking therapy is still ongoing, and others it simply is not... So I find it probably helpful to generate a modicum of caution in others about the subject.
      Whatever was wrong with crying it out away from people if things are so far out of hand? Take a couple days (depending on the severity of the actual problem's source) and let it out... You don't have to rush straight out at the first drop of tears to grab at another reassurance in a bottle, and just like the alcohol people keep telling me I've had too much of, it's just another demon in there seducing your mind into stupidity instead of actually fixing anything...
      Now, before you decide to roast me on this, notice I said "sometimes they can be warranted"... That does point to the admittance that some people in the world have an authentic chemical imbalance... Some syndromes can even be "caught" or are cultivated through life's usual series of tragedies and traumas, and with some chemical agents, those who suffer something they can otherwise never cure can at least find some respite or relief, either short-term or long... That's alright. If someone is indeed schizophrenic, and there's even a modest cocktail of chemicals that bring clarity and lucid thought, by all means, do it. I'd be happy to see someone get positive help from it... But, be careful, that sort of condition is rather rare, and the more "intense", likely the more rare the condition... Not everyone who "hears voices" has something wrong with them...
      For myself, I may hear voices (among other things)... Mostly they are generated as my mind's way to interpret other things (like text)... I can "visualize" on cue (not unlike meditation) and I am a lucid dreamer (a wonderful gift, that frankly I wish I could share)... Any of the delusional conditions that came along with that package haven't yet made my life even remotely intolerable. (even when I admit to being a paranoid, schizoidal personality, with bouts of low self esteem, and occasionally an utter lack of 'survival instinct') The total condition is (honestly) more powerful a tool for me than it has ever acted against me. I'm probably very lucky for that accountance, so for others who feel similar, I'd advise surrounding yourself with a few (yeah, paranoid remember) so a very few trusted and trustworthy friends. Let their advice (especially the closest) help you decide when to find a "therapist" and be watchful of the so-called "experts"... Just like too many medical doctors want the money, so they throw you a pain-killer for everything, too many psychiatrists just throw you some "fuzzy pills" for whatever ails you...
      Now, that's about as articulate and literal as I can make it... Hope you have a good one... :o)

    • @lockardthegoat5157
      @lockardthegoat5157 7 лет назад

      Pretty sure any ordinary, non-psychologist could have figured this out for themselves.

    • @IamMissPronounced
      @IamMissPronounced 6 лет назад

      That's why I hate people who criticize Freud on EVERYTHING. He was only wrong most of the time, not ALL the time

  • @gobokinje9183
    @gobokinje9183 7 лет назад +100

    Maybe they were asking in German :V
    'Table for Sechs" lmao

    • @gnarthdarkanen7464
      @gnarthdarkanen7464 7 лет назад +17

      What if I really wanted a table for sex?
      Do you know how much stress the table's going to have to undergo in that situation? You've got to be careful... safety third... :o)

    • @ProfessorSyndicateFranklai
      @ProfessorSyndicateFranklai 7 лет назад +7

      Tabelle zum sechs.

    • @djh893
      @djh893 7 лет назад +1

      Gobo Kinje or Latin since its just sex=6

    • @melonlord1414
      @melonlord1414 7 лет назад +2

      @ gnarth d'arkanen: oh that's easy, you'd just ask for a table for "Geschlechtsverkehr" instead. That's 100% clear.

    • @robinchesterfield42
      @robinchesterfield42 6 лет назад

      And now I'm thinking of that old joke about: "There's nothing wrong about sex on television, as long as you don't fall off." ;) Of course at the time they were talking about those big furniture-like ones with the tops you could use as a decorative shelf, not the flatscreen ones of today...

  • @ianrbuck
    @ianrbuck 7 лет назад +109

    I like to pretend that autocorrect mistakes are my phone's Freudian skips.

    • @larsswig912
      @larsswig912 4 года назад +1

      Mr too

    • @cwmyr
      @cwmyr 4 года назад +5

      more like the opposite, since it always makes me talk about ducks and ducking.

    • @itsjustfeng3710
      @itsjustfeng3710 2 года назад +5

      Alright, but you wrote skip instead of slip... Was that a Freudian slip?

  • @GinSakurai
    @GinSakurai 7 лет назад +244

    Could be awesome if you guys would cover, how the mind can defend itself from breaking down, if exposed to traumatic events.

    • @Direblade11
      @Direblade11 7 лет назад +4

      GinSakurai The way I stop MY mind from having a breakdown is by cutting myself whenever I see shitty grammar. >.>

    • @luisazul6668
      @luisazul6668 7 лет назад +16

      GinSakurai damn it is an incredible defense mechanism of us to keep us relatively safe when our brain realizes we cannot scape neither fight so we zone out (dissociate) in order to avoid breaking down as you said ..
      unfortunately most of us if not all of trauma survivors will develop PTSD later in life ..

    • @GinSakurai
      @GinSakurai 7 лет назад +10

      Sorry, but English isn't my native language. So stop.

    • @Direblade11
      @Direblade11 7 лет назад +1

      Alright my bad

    • @Direblade11
      @Direblade11 7 лет назад +1

      Sorry

  • @erronblack1
    @erronblack1 7 лет назад +416

    Is the lab assistant Hank in a dress?

    • @KingOpenReview
      @KingOpenReview 7 лет назад +10

      Despite My Better Judgement It looks more like a woman who cut her hair to look like Hank's and put on his glasses.

    • @HalcyonSerenade
      @HalcyonSerenade 7 лет назад +43

      Despite My Better Judgement
      Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's Hank's face silhouette pasted atop a shapely feminine lab assistant.

    • @Rassilon42Omega
      @Rassilon42Omega 7 лет назад +3

      Probably why they chose it.

    • @AaronTossing
      @AaronTossing 7 лет назад +113

      It's not a dress, it's a Freudian slip.

    • @1224chrisng
      @1224chrisng 7 лет назад +2

      Never gonna Give you Up , Never gonna Let you Down

  • @cagneyfan2008
    @cagneyfan2008 7 лет назад +237

    Interesting fact, though, sex is the Latin word for six. So hopefully your waiter knows Latin

    • @adolfodef
      @adolfodef 7 лет назад +7

      Six friends in a table...
      Muffins?

    • @Nizze82
      @Nizze82 7 лет назад +6

      And in Swedish..

    • @motalux
      @motalux 6 лет назад +5

      Well “sex” in Swedish also means six.

    • @Wiggyam
      @Wiggyam 5 лет назад +2

      In norwegian the word for six is pronounced sex (spelled seks)

    • @user-is3yn7xr4c
      @user-is3yn7xr4c 4 года назад +1

      Now I understand why Captain Macmillan said "Alpha sex" during the extraction period in COD MW

  • @dubbaj20
    @dubbaj20 7 лет назад +5

    I'm glad that the clip art of the table you chose appears to be sturdy enough for said activities.

  • @Grubiantoll
    @Grubiantoll 7 лет назад +32

    It almoust feels that Freud often had sex on his mind.
    That cute lab assistent looks like more curvier Hank Green in a female lab coat

  • @Nerobyrne
    @Nerobyrne 7 лет назад +6

    People love to hate on Freud, but people often forget that he was literally the first psychologist. He didn't have anyone else to go to for help with his theories, which is why he had so many crazy ideas. Mostly because everyone back then had really crazy ideas. Thankfully we learned a lot since then.

  • @oceannuclear
    @oceannuclear 7 лет назад +18

    My laptop is known to occasionally eff-ing up the audio. When you said "language is really hard", it played "language is really HAR-HAR-hard."
    It might have been the best non-human freudian slips I've heard.

  • @miabua73
    @miabua73 7 лет назад +155

    I thought about brown bears when you said ''don't think about a white bear.'' Did I pass the test?

    • @commanderwaddles3483
      @commanderwaddles3483 7 лет назад

      I thought of a white bunny

    • @TheWolfgangGrimmer
      @TheWolfgangGrimmer 7 лет назад +26

      But you know that in the back of your mind, you hadn't _really_ forgotten about the white bear.

    • @miabua73
      @miabua73 7 лет назад +1

      Yeah, I know. It's difficult, if not impossible to completely avoid the thought about it, especially when it's about white bears. :-)

    • @MilitantPeaceist
      @MilitantPeaceist 7 лет назад +25

      All you did was put a brown coat on a white bear.
      #closebutnotclose

    • @trebacca9
      @trebacca9 7 лет назад +22

      The trick is to have something ready. Whenever I hear "Don't think about-" I'm already focusing on tuning them out and thinking of Batman instead.

  • @philopateeratef4661
    @philopateeratef4661 7 лет назад +49

    I actually thought of the black mirror episode White bear.....

  • @TheGalacticGrizzly
    @TheGalacticGrizzly 7 лет назад +8

    I mess up a lot of my words, especially when I'm distracted. So i'm gonna save this video so I can instantly show it to people whenever I'm accused of a Freudian slip again.

  • @gabriellaverra7200
    @gabriellaverra7200 7 лет назад +27

    Hey Hank and Co!
    I study psychology in Argentina, where psychoanalysis is still very much on demand and very well respected (mostly because of how psychology started in our country and historical reasons I won't bore you with).
    In most prestigious public national universities the subjects seen throughout the career are very very very "freudian". While I do not agree that this is necessarily the best way to go for the public education's curricula, and many have been fighting for years for a more diverse way of teaching that is closer to how it is done in the rest of the world, this has given me enough information about Freud's theory (I've studied it A LOT) to know that what is said in this video is, at least, partly untrue.
    Freud's theory does in no way imply that if you say "table for sex" that is because you actually want to have sex on that table but didn't know it. That kind of misrepresentation is partly what leads people to believe that he was a nut job (what he may have been, but let's at least judge him for actual things he said or did). The same goes with "he thought that sexual pleasure is the main motive for everything we do": that is a coarse oversimplification of his very complex way of explaining the human mind (VERY complex believe me). It would be more like he defined every human energy as sexual but in a WAY larger "freudian" definition that isn't really what we think of when we talk about it in everyday life, but it would take hours of writing to actually explain it thoroughly.
    Plus, the experiments you have mentioned actually could be perfectly explained inside of Freud's theory and in no way proves it wrong (actually, one of the biggest criticism to Freud is that pretty much nothing he said can be proven right or wrong in a lab, thus isn't scientific). What you explain as an artifact of how the brain processes language Freud did too, only he went further and tried to understand why it processes it one way and not another instead of seeing it a a "default" word that just pops up. But everything on that lab test is perfectly in accordance with the theory behind "freudian slips".
    I love everything you do in sci show and all over youtube and was kind of anxious when this channel came out: I was pretty sure you wouldn't take Freud's theory seriously but was pretty confident that you would do it with real information and knowledge on the subject, and was looking forward to seeing that (I am not that much of a fan of the Freudian theory either, but have honestly never seen anyone prove anything wrong without being misleading).
    I would suggest maybe you talked to a freudian psychoanalyst to have a more thorough idea of what it was that he said, or just not talk about his theory if you believe it isn't worth it. But misleading information is usually all over the place concerning this, we should all do our best to not reproduce misinterpretations that in no way help psychology or science thrive!! Critical thinking about Freud can be done without twisting his words!
    Still, I really appreciate this channel and a lot of the others on which I see you every day!
    I hope no one interprets this as hate mail or "f**k you Freud was awesome shut up". We all have to pitch in to make sure our beloved internet has the most accurate infromation. Tanks for your face on the screen and best wishes!

    • @briholt100
      @briholt100 6 лет назад +6

      Thanks for this. Knew this would be a biased video the moment the narrator claimed that Freud said that kids "should" be attracted to their parents. The word choice 'should' is very misleading as it includes a moral judgment of right and wrong. Freud may have said it's 'common' for kids to be attracted to their parents, which is just descriptive. So, word choices matter and I'm afraid this whole video chose a particular point of view to push.

    • @Pollofa
      @Pollofa 5 лет назад +3

      I also study Psychology in Argentina and I agree with Gabriella. This interpretation of Freud's theory is kind of vague. Freudian slips not only refer to some letter or syllabe substitution but even to full words. A slip could be a substitution of the word "father" for the word "uncle" or it could even be a more crazy idea that means something in the history of the person who is talking. Substitution in Psychoanalysis is not only arranged by homophony. You can think slips as more complex substitutions that say something wich the one who said it didn't know about himself. Or that slip can even open a forgotten episode of the life of that person.
      Freudian slips are also a product of a struggle or a conflict between the instances ego, superego, and id, they are not just a product of language.
      Also, about kids being sexual attracted to their parents... That's called Oedipus Complex and it's not that simple as you say in this video. I suggest, as many other people do in these comments, to get more information. Freud's theory isn't that simple.

    • @cubeofcheese5574
      @cubeofcheese5574 5 лет назад

      +

    • @Luchoedge
      @Luchoedge 5 лет назад

      El psicoanálisis tiene mucha credibilidad en Argentina por lo mismo que el horóscopo:
      A los argentinos les gusta fingir que saben cosas y que están en control de sus patéticas vidas tercermundistas. Por algo somos tan opinólogos, nos colgamos de las bolas de los pocos argentinos que tienen éxito (Messi, por ejemplo) y tomamos cualquier oportunidad para negar la realidad de nuestra naturaleza mediocre y creernos los mejores del mundo en lo que sea que se pueda.
      Freud era un merquero boludo, pero los psicólogos no van a querer admitir nunca que se pasaron años estudiando al pedo.

    • @user-is3yn7xr4c
      @user-is3yn7xr4c 4 года назад +2

      The "Freudian slips of pen and tongue" are not solely about words... it's when someone intentionally or not intentionally express(via speech, act, pose) something oddly/eerie information/image, sometimes malevolently and unconsciously generating/producing those Freudian slips are. Sometimes those are towards other people that surrounding that person who's doing it, and some people got hurt by certain forms of it. But not always.

  • @jyy3717
    @jyy3717 2 года назад +10

    Who came here after Bush

    • @Ex_877
      @Ex_877 2 месяца назад

      All a psyop

  • @klattalexis
    @klattalexis 6 лет назад +105

    According to Freud, everything was about sex. This tells us something about him, the man.

    • @Ken-iu2zp
      @Ken-iu2zp 4 года назад +2

      Yes

    • @moodymoods9261
      @moodymoods9261 4 года назад +10

      And him normalising being sexually attracted to your parent hmmm 🤔

    • @kohnfutner9637
      @kohnfutner9637 3 года назад

      He spent all his time being introspective.

    • @pondscum9363
      @pondscum9363 3 года назад +6

      Freud was the world's first coomer psychologist

  • @KonniWynn
    @KonniWynn 6 лет назад +24

    I love how the "cute lab assistant" just has the same head as the guy shown to be electrocuted.

  • @vincek7810
    @vincek7810 7 лет назад +77

    name your next channel scishow bob

    • @andy56duky
      @andy56duky 7 лет назад +1

      Vince K aaaaahhhh! Scishow Bob!

  • @HalcyonSerenade
    @HalcyonSerenade 7 лет назад +5

    I haven't legitimately laughed out loud during an episode of Sci Show in a long time. Well played, Hank.

  • @REEPER_ONE
    @REEPER_ONE 7 лет назад +12

    I think it would be amazing if you guys could make a video about how people mentally survive SERE training in the US military.
    That would be extremely insightful.

  • @ellazhou5089
    @ellazhou5089 7 лет назад +41

    This is interesting hunk.... I mean Hank...

  • @a.b3748
    @a.b3748 7 лет назад +5

    I'd like to add that Freud's work isn't only valuable clinically, it's a deeper understanding of humanity, aggression and motivation etc.. that are discussed in other disciplines. Plus that he's heavily quoted in philosophy and political studies. So if you want to be a therapist/counselor you can dismiss a lot and still have your own valid methods. I don't really think his work should be taken that scientifically, however, still intriguing and thought-provoking.

  • @fatcontroller12
    @fatcontroller12 6 лет назад +9

    1:39 I died laughing oh my goodness

  • @TerielAtmano
    @TerielAtmano 7 лет назад +14

    You guys messed up what id, ego and superego are. Ego is not a mediator - it drives a person toward realistic expressions of id's desires, and superego persuades the ego to turn to moralistic goals instead of merely realistic. It's like you got this off of wikipedia, which is also wrong.

    • @cubeofcheese5574
      @cubeofcheese5574 5 лет назад +2

      To me this sounds like the same thing they said in the video

    • @bluexephosfan970
      @bluexephosfan970 3 года назад

      Also, to be fair, it's not like it really matters. Both formulations of the theory are just completely wrong

  • @Saavykaas
    @Saavykaas 7 лет назад +4

    I wonder what parapraxis/Freudian Slips were called before Sigmund Freud and formal psychological study.
    It's funny; I suspect the enduring belief that parapraxis somehow reveals things about those who experience it is mostly due to pop culture depictions of it as such.
    Ironically, I wouldn't be at all surprised that when experiencing it themselves, people totally get that parapraxis is nothing revealing, but when experiencing it from others it's almost like people forget that in favor of using it to embarrass or belittle the one experiencing it.

  • @lilmousechan
    @lilmousechan 7 лет назад +5

    I often find it hard to word goodly. :)

  • @Master_Therion
    @Master_Therion 7 лет назад +282

    What an interesting video, I really penis a lot. I mean "learned" a lot... dammit...

    • @valeriobertoncello1809
      @valeriobertoncello1809 7 лет назад +20

      out of ideas for like-bait comments, Master Therion?

    • @sigmundfreud1808
      @sigmundfreud1808 7 лет назад +49

      you seemed to be projecting your lack of like-bait comments onto another person inorder to get likes!! Clever

    • @MrVauxs
      @MrVauxs 7 лет назад +2

      go back to your schoringers slips Sigmund

    • @gangstashanksta
      @gangstashanksta 7 лет назад +1

      I'd like a table for sex......... No -A table for sex.

    • @johnarbuckle2619
      @johnarbuckle2619 7 лет назад

      Master Therion Stop being everywhere !!!

  • @egonzalez4294
    @egonzalez4294 7 лет назад +7

    I just hate when you want to type *one sec* but type *one sex* and press enter

    • @ElectricPyroclast
      @ElectricPyroclast 7 лет назад +1

      Or when I want to type shirt but my "r" goes missing. Fortunately, "t-shit" as far as I know is a meaningless term, so I can correct myself without much embarrassment

  • @lpsfankanr1
    @lpsfankanr1 Месяц назад +1

    There is this guy I like and I believe he likes me as well.
    Recently he was talking about what he'd do with their SO in a specific situation and went from saying "her", to "you" a couple times and back to "her" without realising and I noticed that, but didn't call it out lol.

  • @gideonjones5712
    @gideonjones5712 6 лет назад +4

    He said don't think about a white bear, and I internally started shouting "purple elephant, purple elephant, purple elephant!"

  • @pierrelouis6445
    @pierrelouis6445 7 лет назад +14

    A freudian slip gives true insight into an individual's thoughts, feelings and personality.

  • @Sophistry0001
    @Sophistry0001 7 лет назад +2

    Haha, the white bear thing. I used to do that to my brothers as a kid when we were playing video games and they were trying to concentrate. I'd start saying "dont concentrate on the sound of my voice. whatever you do, dont concentrate on my voice." ect. Worked every time.

  • @RaeWakefield
    @RaeWakefield 7 лет назад +1

    This is when you ask for your teacher but accidentally scream "mom" through the classroom.

  • @freemanaccount5146
    @freemanaccount5146 7 лет назад +3

    I feel like I should make a joke about that table having wood, but I can't think of one.

  • @thala404
    @thala404 7 лет назад +2

    I'm curious as to how communication-based disorders would affect responses. For example, you had said that "vocabulary is roughly organized by how similar words sound." However, it's (fairly?) well known that some disabilities (such as ASD) result in differences in the mental categorization and storage of information...

  • @PJemus
    @PJemus 6 лет назад +14

    when you said white bear, all I could think about was a pink elephant.

    • @k.suliman8539
      @k.suliman8539 3 года назад

      I thought of a black bear for some reason

  • @benvolio1500
    @benvolio1500 7 лет назад +1

    I nearly had a heart attack at 3:12. I've been watching too much Black Mirror.

  • @kyubey3961
    @kyubey3961 3 года назад +3

    I'm a psychology student in France, one of the last 2 countries in the world where Freud is still taken seriously by psychologists: thank you so, so much, it is so exhausting to have to listen to my teachers talk about about his theories uncritically, so every voice against him is a badly needed bowl of fresh air !

  • @valeriobertoncello1809
    @valeriobertoncello1809 7 лет назад +1

    I don't know how isn't Scishow Psych catching up with the other Scishow channels.
    Every video is soo interesting... keep up the great work!!!

    • @HoD999x
      @HoD999x 7 лет назад

      it isn't as interesting. most of the things are "so they made this experiment and we know something is happening, but we don't know how it works or why"

    • @valeriobertoncello1809
      @valeriobertoncello1809 7 лет назад

      I personally find it more interesting than regular scishow, which is often populated by video-fillers about animal facts that I find really boring.

  • @HikiOmo
    @HikiOmo 4 года назад +4

    My Freudian slips reveal that my brain has no real thoughts beside what I'm saying.

  • @romantheflash
    @romantheflash 7 лет назад +1

    THanks for this Hank, I had known about Freudian Slips and bits about why it was wrong, but never fully explained. So thanks

  • @MorgothAndúril
    @MorgothAndúril 7 лет назад +3

    This is great! Wait til I tell me beloved smother -- I mean, Mother.

  • @kokowheeli6053
    @kokowheeli6053 2 года назад

    You had the chance to absolutely flood this video with freudian slips and didn't... I'm afraid I can only give you 9.5/10

  • @Prizzlesticks
    @Prizzlesticks 7 лет назад +6

    Hank: Don't think of a white bear!
    Me: * thinks of a brown bear instead* You got it, dude.

  • @SuperFreeEducation
    @SuperFreeEducation 7 лет назад +2

    3:30 jokes on you I was thinking of pink elephants

  • @stax6092
    @stax6092 7 лет назад +8

    I agree, Talking is hard.

  • @jaynedavis3388
    @jaynedavis3388 5 лет назад +2

    I had a purple elephant with an umbrella, that’s how I always beat the “white bear problem” (we say “don’t think of a hippo” most of the time). I just flash to a completely different animal & add crazy elements to keep my focus off the bear

  • @DEMERN
    @DEMERN 7 лет назад +5

    one time i said "hello" to my bus driver instead of saying "thank you"
    i can speak very goodly

  • @TheCalm25
    @TheCalm25 7 лет назад

    It's great that the first SciShow Psych episode I watch is making the clear point that Freud was wrong about everything. I was worried before watching when I saw the title. :) Subscribed.

  • @scishowfan2.050
    @scishowfan2.050 7 лет назад +8

    when will this awesome channel get patreon

    • @MuDasirYasen
      @MuDasirYasen 7 лет назад

      SCI SHOW FAN 2.0 it already has it!

  • @wasthatthebiteof877
    @wasthatthebiteof877 5 месяцев назад

    “Slip like Freudian in your first to last step to playing yourself like accordion”

  • @neilisbored2177
    @neilisbored2177 7 лет назад +3

    What about when you say "That train has sailed"?

  • @itisdevonly
    @itisdevonly 7 лет назад +2

    I have a tendency to say the wrong word at times, but they're often quite unrelated. Not long ago I asked my husband to get me a little spoon. Only instead of saying spoon, it came out "yogurt." I mean, I do eat yogurt with a spoon, but that's quite a substantial difference in meaning, and the two words don't even sound remotely alike.

  • @EcoMouseChannel
    @EcoMouseChannel 7 лет назад +4

    I think the best way to confirm this theory, is to test to see if other languages have the same phonetic ability to be swapped in a Freudian manner.

  • @Louiesarge1
    @Louiesarge1 3 года назад +1

    probably a better way to test language slips like that in accordance to the immediate anxiousness of the patient within a circumstance is to show a room with ambient surroundings of a subject and measurement the related slips without having immediate threats of embarrassment and shock throuw these thoughts to the forefront

  • @phils0209
    @phils0209 7 лет назад +3

    he totally didnt mention psychoanalysis as a way to discover all the interwoven meanings a freudian slip can have and how that helps understand our subjectivity from a first person perspective

  • @Wendifur_
    @Wendifur_ 7 лет назад

    I love this new channel! More than regular SciShow

  • @nashwinston1395
    @nashwinston1395 7 лет назад +3

    The moment he mentioned the white bear I thought to myself, "Damn it I just lost the game!"

  • @Kamel419
    @Kamel419 7 лет назад

    I didn't know I could love scishow any more, then scishow psych came along... thank you!

  • @Izzmonster
    @Izzmonster 7 лет назад +4

    Yeah after taking a high school psychology class, I had trouble believing real psychologists actually believed freud.

    • @Dr_JSH
      @Dr_JSH 2 года назад

      Nowadays, Freud is limited mostly to psychoanalysis.

    • @Izzmonster
      @Izzmonster 2 года назад

      @@Dr_JSH Well those psychos better stay away from my analysts

  • @Jsisbskanndnd
    @Jsisbskanndnd 8 месяцев назад

    the other day my history teacher said king philip was a visionary and later in the class she asked what king philip was. I answered missionary. I said "King Philip was a missionary." Godspeed, Freud.

  • @DeSpaceFairy
    @DeSpaceFairy 7 лет назад +15

    Jung would be pleased.

  • @rsrt6910
    @rsrt6910 6 лет назад

    Famous "White Bear problem" from Ghostbusters:
    Ray: "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man."
    Peter: "Well, that's something you don't see every day."
    Ray: "I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something that I loved from my childhood. Something that would never ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Stay-Puft."
    Peter: "Nice thinking Ray."
    Ray: "We used to roast Stay-Puft Marshmallows, by the fire at Camp Waconda."
    Peter: ""Ray's gone bye-bye Egon, what have you got left?"
    Egon "Sorry,Venkman. I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought."

  • @jangambler9998
    @jangambler9998 7 лет назад +3

    0:28 Please make that an emoji!

    • @jangambler9998
      @jangambler9998 7 лет назад

      2:14 Also, could use that sexy Hank, not that he isn't sexy normally.

  • @lockardthegoat5157
    @lockardthegoat5157 7 лет назад +1

    Stop reading too much into something people. Your brain and its flow of information is complex and imperfect, and sometimes it just misplaces things and uses the wrong word. Nothing to do with revealing unconscious/subconscious feelings like some of you have been led to believe.

  • @magus104
    @magus104 7 лет назад +9

    gotta have an ex to call your current significant other by that name. or have a significant other in the first place even. gg 40 year old virgins are real

  • @odiechan
    @odiechan 7 лет назад +1

    I used to work at a doctor's office and one time I tried to ask a gentleman if he wanted text message reminders and instead I said 'sext messages'. He had a good sense of humor about it and brightly said 'sure!" while I turned beet red.

  • @alejandrosolis4505
    @alejandrosolis4505 7 лет назад +3

    This video is almost completely wrong on everything related to Freud, even the Oedipus complex is taken lightly and out of context,.
    You can't say a thing you do not understand is wrong. Freudian slips are only analyzed in a clinical context, where the instruction is to speak freely, therefore there is no warning to avoid a topic. Thats why they may or may not mean something, it depends on each case and on each person.
    Freud's discovery was the unconscious mind and an idea on how to access it through speech, not an oversexualized theory on the mind... And again, it is done one by one, case by case...

  • @Bloodwolf1995
    @Bloodwolf1995 7 лет назад +1

    What causes, throughout history, human beings to seek out what they determine as normal and dehumanize those who do not follow those rules?
    Examples: Slave Owners, The Crusades, Holocaust,Salem Witch Trials etc.
    And if said desire for normalcy was removed, would this create chaos, or would normalcy eventually settle out (since whatever is most common would just be normal) but without hatred of those who deviate from that new norm?

  • @jamesregli4754
    @jamesregli4754 7 лет назад +5

    I think if someone asks for a table for sex that it might not be some hidden desire in their subconscious, but if it wasn't just the slip of the tongue, it could be that they were seriously just thinking about that before being asked a question that broke their train of thought. In that case, there would be a sort of truth to your word slip ups being entangled with your thoughts, but not really as deeply as previously believed.

    • @joe_zupko
      @joe_zupko 7 лет назад +3

      James Regli a lot of slips seems to be sexual in nature, I yelled out "orgasm" instead of organism in class once... I guess I wasn't thinking about science :p I like a lot of Freuds theories. They may not be all backed up with fact, but I feel like they give an interesting way of thinking about the subconscious

  • @TheCaptainAtomic
    @TheCaptainAtomic 7 лет назад

    I about choked on my water when I heard the fruedian slip.

  • @MilitantPeaceist
    @MilitantPeaceist 7 лет назад +35

    Freud inspired research like blowing up a city inspires people to rebuild.
    We've pretty much had to fix everything he did, & the laws & reactions based on his ideas caused widespread psychological suffering for decades & all because it was himself that had the sexual problems he ironically 'Psychologically Projected" upon his subjects.
    p.s. I don't like the man much, can ya tell?

    • @EilleenCarrion
      @EilleenCarrion 7 лет назад +1

      MilitantPeaceist well, his research was a fraud so...... Why do we still learn about him, though?

    • @MilitantPeaceist
      @MilitantPeaceist 7 лет назад +3

      Fraud has intention & there is little doubt that Freud was not fraudulent (say that 5 times fast). You can ascribe many things to Freud but intention is not one of them. It was ignorance & that he was 1st. Were Tesla's failed experiments fraudulent? Were every attempt at making the lightbulb prior the 1st working model, fraudulent?
      We make false assumptions all the time, they cannot be intrinsically connected to intent especially dealing in a virgin field & we do have the scientific method to test those assumptions ... the ones that make it were the ones that were right .. all others are not considered fraudulent.
      Why do you have to learn it?
      - So you don't make the same mistake in a field that involves subjective perceptions.
      - So you know just how innocent & easy it is to get it wrong & cause widespread suffering.
      - To show you the evolution of the thoughts of thought before your '1st working model' that we accept now as foundational & have built on to now offer so many variances of approach.
      - & that when applied to the appropriate areas, psychoanalysis is as important as any other approach in providing the best outcome solution for the patient.
      We don't learn about the evolution of the car starting with Henry Ford.
      We don't learn about evolution by starting halfway through the story.

    • @asho345
      @asho345 7 лет назад +4

      MilitantPeaceist I would argue that people are suffering now because we have abandoned much of Freud's ideas. Clinical psychology has become about treating symptoms rather than finding root causes. Freud showed us how much childhood experiences effect our relationship with others and the world- and our current science backs that up. But today we are too afraid to criticize anyone's parenting choices or home structure or the structure of society, so we see a child acting out and we give them meds or just teach them how to cope with stress. We treat it as a biological defect rather than the expression of some tension. Freud didn't get everything right, but he gave us a lot of new information to work with.

    • @asho345
      @asho345 7 лет назад

      MilitantPeaceist Example, he may have psychologically projected his ideas onto some of his patients, but he also helped in understanding this concept of doctor-patient projection.

    • @MilitantPeaceist
      @MilitantPeaceist 7 лет назад +1

      "Clinical psychology has become about treating symptoms rather than finding root causes."
      All of medicine changed focus & started treating the patient & not the paradigm.
      It is an assumption there are faults occurring that we need to fix & classify as a 'root cause'. It is our assumption that we know the true order of things to have a template to know what is normal & what is not. This was Freud's mistake as well.
      It's only been recently since we dropped the idea that Adam & Eve is the natural order of gender/sex which had the entire field working & believing the right course of action was to perform sex changes on intersex infants, but not only that, to make a male is 1st priority & if that failed, then a female. This is fashioning gender/sex, not working with it. The damage this alone did to those intersex people was catastrophic.
      This is precisely how we know gender identity exists & consider the ramifications of that. We are talking 100 years of lobotomies & electro shock therapies based on 'curing' a 'root cause' based on an assumption.
      You would know the impetus to this malpractice by the name "Tabula rasa" (Locke) which Freud used within his framework so he was hardly insightful as far as childhood experiences are concerned. Freud just took a very bad idea & made it mainstream.
      "Freud showed us how much childhood experiences effect our relationship with others and the world"
      Like Napoleon showed us how severe & widespread oppression leads to revolution, rebellion & eventually, human rights.
      Yaaay for Napoleon.

  • @Ignatiusussy
    @Ignatiusussy Год назад

    My brain farted at just the right moment and I thought of a carrot, not a white bear.

  • @lebannen21
    @lebannen21 7 лет назад +8

    Bad interpretation of Freud.

  • @youmaycallmeken
    @youmaycallmeken 7 лет назад +1

    "... talking is just really hard" -For someone who's said that, you sure do a lot of it, and quite well.

  • @SharpnessSword
    @SharpnessSword 7 лет назад +54

    but why does hair grow in my. . . .jk, i'm not about to start that. . . .

    • @TheZenytram
      @TheZenytram 7 лет назад +18

      you already said there's no more return.

  • @seanpeacock4290
    @seanpeacock4290 7 лет назад

    white bear: I thought of kitten videos, I am on youtube after all.

  • @keepspamaway5603
    @keepspamaway5603 7 лет назад +3

    Lmao, I was about to put like and I pressed dislike instead...that slip tho (but I put like because I liked the video ).

  • @graffiti9145
    @graffiti9145 2 года назад +1

    Throwback to all the times i accidentally called my teachers mom/dad

  • @two_owls
    @two_owls 7 лет назад +13

    Yeah, Freud wasn't actually wrong about everything. I'd like to see some legit sources about that, not BBC or psychology today, neither of which are very thorough or careful when it comes to psychology.

    • @varlam1568
      @varlam1568 6 лет назад

      +Owen Symes Freud is right for majority of his theoris. People just can't take those, because reality is difficult to confront.

    • @stephaniesummer2663
      @stephaniesummer2663 6 лет назад

      Owen Symes They literally 5 other sources.

  • @kujmous
    @kujmous 7 лет назад

    ...loved watching all these episodes come together... ;)

  • @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs
    @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs 7 лет назад +42

    Freud was basically a pseudo scientist and psychoanalysis is a bunch of bullocks, still people take them seriously to this day. I wonder if this is because of the same reason so many believe in messiahs and all that. 😮

    • @MilitantPeaceist
      @MilitantPeaceist 7 лет назад +7

      "psychoanalysis is a bunch of bullocks"[sic]
      This is the same as saying "thinking is a bunch of bollocks". We all psychoanalyse to make sense of the people around us, we just have better facts under our belts now which leads us to better conclusions than in the day of Freud.
      When you wonder why a machine works the way it does, that is called analysing.
      When you wonder why a person works they way they do, that is called psychoanalysing.
      When people psychoanalyse correctly based on current facts/knowledge, they are called doctors.
      (that might be an indication for you to go see one)

    • @b.sylphaen
      @b.sylphaen 7 лет назад +8

      I live in a house with a Freud fan and two psychoanalists. I'm in constant terror of saying something wrong and open a gate to hell.

    • @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs
      @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs 7 лет назад +6

      MilitantPeaceist I don't understand why someone would still use psychoanalysis when it's been proven to be pseudo science.
      I'm all up for analyzing stuff, as you said in the first half of your comment, but why use outdated or non functional tools?

    • @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs
      @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs 7 лет назад +5

      Quick addendum: it amazes me some psychologists say they are specialists in psychoanalysis. 😮

    • @MilitantPeaceist
      @MilitantPeaceist 7 лет назад +2

      Because it wasn't the tool (psychoanalysis) that was faulty, it was the instructions that led to faulty conclusions (ie: Freud's faulty assumptions that turned into instructions for others).
      There would be 0/zero diagnoses without analysing the patient to see what the best course of action to be, based on the observations of that patient behaviours & what thoughts they associate with, that trigger such behaviours.
      Same as we used to kill our 1st born for Goldilocks weather.
      Now we watch the weather report from people who know more than us.
      It doesn't mean all meteorologists are always right, but are never always wrong like killing a 1st born was.
      Not because we use different tools, it is because we have developed better instructions that give us more accurate conclusions.

  • @Werevampiwolf
    @Werevampiwolf 7 лет назад

    "Or peni-BLOOP" AHAHAHAHAHAHA. Also the provocative lab assistant lol

  • @pgunders1973
    @pgunders1973 7 лет назад +7

    Freud can be criticized for plenty of things, but this video was intellectually lazy. Where in Freud's work does he write about the "subconscious"? Pre-conscious? Yes. Unconscious? Yes. Subconscious? No. Id, ego, superego? Those are terms foisted on Freud by his English translators. The veiled reference to the Oedipus complex managed to be both vague and a caricature at the same time. C'mon SciShow, your need to take potshots at Freud tells me more about the insecurities of your writers (probably underemployed psych majors) than it does about an intellectual who, for better AND worse, shaped the discipline of psychology from the 19th century onwards.

    • @Polloles
      @Polloles 7 лет назад

      pgunders1973 I completely agree with you. The video lacks A LOT, and I really mean A LOT of what Freud actually wrote. I guess it's easier to take popular and bastardized "knowledge" of Freudian concepts and make a video about what the brain (not the mind) does when slips are sort of forced out of groups of people, rather than actually taking a deep look into Freud's enormous amount of writings (where he actually corrects himself several times) and making a video debating his real theory.

    • @epistemologically9142
      @epistemologically9142 6 лет назад +5

      Im not sure what you mean when you say that the terms "id, ego and superego" are foisted by his English translators.. i mean.. we can look at his original writing in german and he cals them "es, ich and Überich", so ya, they where translated, but he did use those terms... he even writes a paper called The Ego and the Id ( in German "Das Ich und das Es") in 1923.
      The thing with subconscious, in his early works he uses subconscious (das Unterbewusste) and unconscious (das Unbewusste) interchangeably, untill he stuck with the second one, so you are kind of right there, but not completelly...
      anyway this video just says that most of freud theories are wrong, wich is true, not that all of them are, and he even aknowledge that he did shaped the discipline of psychology... so I don't really understand the problem!

  • @Calzonii09
    @Calzonii09 Год назад

    Rooting for you Hank!

  • @dawn8293
    @dawn8293 7 лет назад

    thanks for not making people who aren't patrons not feel like we aren't "real fans".

  • @jojoh265
    @jojoh265 7 лет назад

    Hank's secret desire is a derpy anglerfish

  • @rsphsblz83
    @rsphsblz83 7 лет назад

    I wasn't thinking about a white bear I imagined a polar bear, so ha, ha ha ha

  • @cwmyr
    @cwmyr 4 года назад

    WHAT? More anxious = more mistakes is EXACTLY what Freudian psychoanalysis would predict. More anxiety would hint at stronger repression, and thus a higher need for the Id to manifest itself in Freudian slips.

  • @fernandov1492
    @fernandov1492 7 лет назад

    I know he was a medical doctor initially but compared to what it is available to us today in 2017 as far as neuroscientific literature goes, he basically just gave us speculation and pure conjectures about the "human psyche".

  • @linkmasterman1
    @linkmasterman1 6 лет назад

    The white bear thing is *really fun* when you're sick...