parapraxis in a sentence
Examples
- Horwitz points out, in Lacan and Hegel's differing approaches to the topic of speech, that Lacan's unconscious reveals itself to us in parapraxis, or " slips-of-the-tongue . " We are therefore, according to Lacan, alienated from language through the revelation of our desire ( even if that desire originated with the Other, as he claims, it remains peculiar to us ).