In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Austrian Sigmund Freud, physiologist and psychiatrist, laid the foundations of psychoanalysis as a therapeutic method through his studies and revolutionized the way modern man perceives concepts such as consciousness and sexuality.

In the Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens, 1901), Freud explores hidden intentions, deep desires, and repressed thoughts, covered by phenomena such as the forgetting of proper names, misreading, and slips in writing, language mistakes, and other seemingly random and incidental actions that we all commit daily.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]