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parapraxia|pærəˈpræksɪə|
Also paraˈpraxis, pl. -es.
[f. para-1 + -praxia.]
The faulty performance of an intended act; in psychoanalysis, a minor error said to reveal a subconscious motive.
1912Stedman Med. Dict. (ed. 2) 657/2 Parapraxia, a condition..in which there is a defective performance of certain purposive acts. 1937tr. Freud's Gen. Sel. Wks. i. 25 That group of everyday mental phenomena whose study has become a technical help for psycho-analysis. These are the bungling of acts (parapraxes) among normal men as well as among neurotics. 1953M. Critchley Parietal Lobes v. 160 The patient, requested to make a particular movement, may do something quite different (parapraxia or parakinesis). 1959Observer 1 Feb. 19/4 Such forces in scientists may produce quite unpredictable parapraxes in their experimental work. 1969P. Anderson in Cockburn & Blackburn Student Power 261 No appeal to the conventions of drawing-room conversation can controvert the parapraxes of the couch. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 4 July 713/1 Have we recognized a bit of the Latin Mass?.. An astronomical reference? A Freudian parapraxis? 1975New Society 11 Sept. 600/3 All too many malapropisms and misprints (or are they parapraxes? We get, for instance, ‘He apostasises’, followed by a quotation from Mill, for ‘He apostrophises’.). |