definition of freudian slip
Noun[edit] Freudian slip â(plural Freudian slips) 1  A mistake in speech or action in which a person supposedly shows their true subconscious desires.  Review of The Anatomy of Personality (published 1936) After disposing of these general topics in a chapter entitled . The Manners of All Men  (but which, by some Freudian slip, we sup- pose, deals chiefly with ' The Impure Man').