What the Freudian slip hides is called Shadow Archetype. Contrast and compare (respectively): Last-Second Word Swap, Ignore the Disability. Taken to extremes, it becomes a Freudian Slippery Slope. As such, it's a perfect tool for the comedy writer.Ī specific form of faux pas, which usually leads to Verbal Backspace. It is an involuntary word substitution that supposedly reveals something you're repressing, hiding, or simply trying not to talk about. A Freudian Slip is, as one wag has put it, 'when you say one thing and mean your mother'.
