Question

It is finals week and Donna has two cumulative exams tomorrow. She has been studying, it seems, nonstop for the past few days and is currently in her dorm room studying. Her roommate tells her that she is studying too much and that she should go out to dinner with her. Donna replies, "No, thanks. I plan to spend the evening sleeping . . . uh, I mean studying." Donna's reply is an example of what Freud would call

Answer 1

Answer: Freudian Slip

Explanation:  Freudian Slip is a mistake in speech, in memory, in a physical performance, hypothetically provoked by the unconscious, that is, through the freudian slip the desire of the unconscious is fulfilled. This explains the fact that no gesture, thought or word happens accidentally. They are different from common error because it is the result of ignorance or convenience.

Freud evidenced that the freudian slip was as a symptom, constitution of compromise between the conscious intention of the person and the repressed.