I read this in Tasmania's fine newspaper today:
State Infrastructure Minister Graeme Sturges made an embarrassing Freudian slip when asked whether it was just a coincidence that construction was starting in the middle of an election campaign.
"No, absolutely not," Mr Sturges said.Now, I'm prepared to look stupid here, because I have no idea how this is a Freudian slip... he said no to a question...
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I'm with you, Chris - that's bizarre! He said no. It was perhaps a flimsy story, and not many might choose to believe that the timing of construction was a coincidence, but in no way is that a Freudian slip. Even wikipedia knows that.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip
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Well, I can kinda work it out...but it's really not particularly Freudian (thank goodness) When the guy asked him if it was a coincidence if construction was starting in the middle of the election campaign, Sturges replied "no" - as in, "no, it's not a coincidence" (read into that, this is a stunt we're pulling to get people in Kingston to vote for us). What he really meant (I think) was "No, it has been planned for a long time and the election has nothing to do with it."
Wow, now I feel like I've achieved something today (deconstructing the Mercury!)
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Stelle
Stelle has it!
ohhhh.... my excuse for missing that is that I only finished a year of my arts degree before switching to straight science...
I maintain that it is shoddy journalism at best!
look, I've done an Arts degree and I couldn't pick it.
English should be more like Greek where two negatives make a really negative statement not a positive!
Having said that if the question was, "Isn't this a coincidence?" And he said "No, it isn't" then I can see that it might have been something vaguely but not really like a Freudian slip. But the question was framed in the positive, "Is it a coincidence?" and he answered with a strong negative, No it isn't... So in some ways he's not really accidentally saying yes... He is saying NO definitely NOT.
Isn't a Freudian slip meant to be about some kind of repressed desire as well??
Stelle has it dead right and Georgie has clarified it further.
A freudian slip is when you unconsciously reveal the truth. The journalist is perfectly correct to identify this as a freudian slip- nothing shoddy or sloppy about here. Sturges -technically speaking- said the planned development was deliberately announced during an election campaign, when what he meant was that it wasn't.