A lapsus (lapse, slip, error) is an involuntary mistake made while writing or speaking. According to Freud's early psychoanalytic theory, a lapsus represents a missed deed that hides an unconscious desire.
In literature there are a number of different lapsus depending on the mode of correspondence:
- lapsus linguae (pl. same): slip of the tongue.
- lapsus calami: slip of the pen. With the variation of lapsus clavis: slip of the typewriting
- Lapsus manu: slip of the hand. Similar to lapsus calami.
- lapsus memoriae: slip of memory.
Types of slips of the tongue
Slips of the tongue can happen on any level:
- Syntactic - is instead of was.
- Phrasal slips of tongue - I'll explain this tornado later.
- Lexical/semantic - moon full instead of full moon.
- Morphological level - workings paper
- Phonological (sound slips) - flow snurries instead of snow flurries
Additionally, each of these three levels of error may take various forms:
- Anticipations: Where an early output item is corrupted by an element belonging to a later one. Thus "reading list" - "leading list".
- Perseverations: Where a later output item is corrupted by an element belonging to an earlier one. Thus "waking rabbits" - "waking wabbits".
- Deletions: Where an output element is somehow totally lost. Thus "same state" - "same sate".
- Shift: Moving a letter. Thus "black foxes" - "back floxes".
- Haplologies:[1] half one word and half the other. Thus "stummy" instead of "stomach or tummy". (Smith, 2003)[volume & issue needed]
- Pun
See also
Notes
- ^ This is a different phenomenon to that described in the main article on haplologies, which involves the removal of identical consecutive syllables.
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