Have you ever been in a fight with your, like, significant other and then accidentally called them your ex's name?
Or gone to a restaurant and asked for a table for sex instead of, like, for six?
Besides completely embarrassing yourself and creating a situation you're probably going to regret for a long, long time, you made what's called a Freudian slip, which is named after famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
According to Freud, these moments reveal your hidden desires — so he would say you, like, had more on your mind than just dinner with your friends.
But it turns out that there isn't much truth behind that.
The concept of Freudian slips came from Freud's research on the subconscious mind.
He believed that you aren't actually aware of your true desires and that, instead, they're hidden in your subconscious.
Those desires often had something to do with sex, since Freud thought bodily pleasure — whether through sex or even through going to the bathroom — is your number one motivator in life.
Some of his theories about this went a little too far — like, he famously believed that healthy toddlers should be sexually attracted to their opposite-sex parent, which isn't actually normal, or healthy.
To describe how he thought the mind worked, Freud developed his theoretical model of the subconscious, which breaks down your mind into three parts: the id, the superego, and the ego.
