Introduction Freud 'The Psychopathology of Everyday Life' (1901) UC Meaning and Precision of Accidents Summary.

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1 1 Introduction Freud 'The Psychopathology of Everyday Life' (1901) UC Meaning and Precision of Accidents Summary 2 Human Error 3 1

2 Copernicus - Centre of the Universe Darwin - Centre and Zenith of Creation Marx - Consciously to determine own history Freud - Consciously and rationally in control of own mind 4 Must include unconscious forces and conflicts Sociological or Decision Theory Blind Eye on Vested Interests in Making Things go Wrong Blind Eye on Explanations 5 Parapraxes Slips of the tongue Accidental actions Lapses of memory Evidence of UC Mental Activity Selfexamination 6 2

3 Human Error Types of Responses: 'I didn't want to go and I expect that's why I forgot' 'Simple oversight' - Didn't want to - Remembers dimly to check - Part of Him 'No' 'an accident and that's that' 'He shows a strong personal interest in demonstrating that his parapraxis does not have sense' 9 3

4 'Pure Version' Accident is a random event Claim certain occurrences however small, drop out of the universal concatenation of events Occurrences which might as well not happen as happen Breach in the determinism of natural events at a any point Throw overboard the whole Weltanschauung of science Mental Life is not Random Think of a Random Name Chosen Name has a Significance Think of a nonsensical Sentence Insistence on 'chance' suggests a vested interest 10 External Justifications Physiological Disturbances Lack of conscious attention increase the frequency of errors Does not explain why one particular slip occurs rather than another 'Some science, this science of yours, that accommodates any facts to its theory! 3. Case No intention - and you take this as further evidence to support your theory! Point - Unless he is our Patient! Then we can study the matter more carefully! Often those close to us can see the intentions better!

not find it Convinced given to Father - angry at him Mirror - around neck 2

5 13 Lose things Mistakes about Appointments 14 Mother Dying in hospital Preoccupation with Loss of Medalion Removed to keep it safe Next Day - could not find it Convinced given to Father - angry at him Mirror - around neck 2 Reasons Preserve Mother and not Lose her Presence of infantile death wish against her 15 5

Patient - Losses Documents Becomes desperate, persecutes himself, guilty of crimes Feels intense guilt about his success When found not relief but disappointment Guilt Triumph

Not Potentially Enriching Only a 'Simple Accident' Insult to her Integrity, narcisisstic wound Master of Everything inner world dominated by cruel forces that treated all

6 Patient - Losses Documents Becomes desperate, persecutes himself, guilty of crimes Feels intense guilt about his success When found not relief but disappointment Guilt Triumph over his Father Finding was accompanied by the disappointment of not finding what he had unconsciously been looking for (i.e. his father) Finding the documents meant success and therefore fear of further persecution 16 Detestation of Parapraxes Mistakes: Senseless. Not Potentially Enriching Only a 'Simple Accident' Insult to her Integrity, narcisisstic wound Master of Everything inner world dominated by cruel forces that treated all human vulnerability with contempt Dislike of our Parapraxes being known 17 Human Error 18 6

Forgetting to pay bills We bring about externally a

is distressing to face We naturally prefer to locate

outside of ourselves 20 Sometimes a car is a car Deep

-Devastating Experienced as Attack on Self Cars with

the Wheel From Polite to Aggressive Larger Cars Oedipal

7 Forgetting to pay bills We bring about externally a constant source of persecution 19 The presence within us is distressing to face We naturally prefer to locate these things in others Project these destructive forces outside of ourselves 20 Sometimes a car is a car Deep Symbolic Meaning Own Body or Self Minor Accident -Devastating Experienced as Attack on Self Cars with multiple Dents Front Back Change of Personality behind the Wheel From Polite to Aggressive Larger Cars Oedipal rivalry competitiveness death wishes against the father who 'has a bigger one' 21 7

1. Tavistock Conference on Disasters Participant - Lack of Safty; Fire; Chairs Some sort

caught up in a type of delinquency contribution to the causal chain that leads to many

thus mock ordinary human concern as at the conference 22 Fire Drill in Psychotherapeutic

8 1. Tavistock Conference on Disasters Participant - Lack of Safty; Fire; Chairs Some sort of crank Permanent worker from the City fire disaster The conference as a whole had got caught up in a type of delinquency contribution to the causal chain that leads to many disasters Adolescents in a classroom - fire bell goes, think it is big to ignore it They thus mock ordinary human concern as at the conference 22 Fire Drill in Psychotherapeutic Clinic Dicing with death Drive cars dangerously Drink whilst driving 23 Human Error 24 8

9 Attempted to demonstrate the importance of unconscious factors in the causation of errors and accidents No theory of the causation of accidents can afford to exclude this perspective Errors and accidents always have a sense, a meaning They are indicative of largely unconscious destructive forces Important to recognise this to avoid the usual witch hunts that follow disasters 25 Seeking of an individual to blame - serves to project and deny personal responsibility Differentiate between understanding the cause of a disaster and attributing blame for it 26 9

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Hold on to your. There is a ton of information coming at ya!! Don t miss class this. Ouch. Hold on to your Don t miss class this week hat Ouch. There is a ton of information coming at ya!! Hippocrates Believed our personality is based on 4 humours or bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, cholera, black