Meaning of ‘Freudian slip’ explained following George W Bush Iraq gaffe
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This week former US president George W Bush made headlines after he got Iraq and Ukraine mixed up during a speech in Dallas.
The moment has been dubbed a ‘Freudian slip’ on social media as users share their reactions to the gaffe, while others have wondered what the phrase means.
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George W Bush’s Iraq gaffe explained
In a speech at the George W Bush Institute in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday (18 May), the former president was seen to mix up Iraq and Ukraine.
As he discussed Russia’s political system, he referred to their invasion of Ukraine as: “A wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq.”
Following the slip-up, as reported by the Daily Mail, he promptly corrected himself to say he meant Ukraine as he went on to joke about his age.
Here’s the clip:
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George W Bush’s ‘Freudian slip’ takes over Twitter
Users on Twitter have dubbed the moment a “Freudian slip” as they share their reactions across the micro-blogging site:
Another joked about the slip-up aligning with Mercury being in retrograde:
Freudian slip meaning explained
The Merriam Webster definition is a Freudian slip is “when an individual makes an error when communicating that is believed to reveal their subconscious thoughts”.
The phenomenon is also known as ‘parapraxis’ and, while it commonly occurs in speech, it can also happen during other ways of communicating, such as typing and writing.
The phrase takes its name from neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, who believed a person’s true desires could be found in slip-ups during their speech.
Freud first discussed the concept in his book The Psychopathology Of Everyday Life, in which he referred to the idea as a “fehlleistungen”, according to Healthline. However, it later became more colloquially known as a ‘Freudian slip’.