Philology cross-examines Freud in this sustained critique of psychoanalysis and its foundational notion of the slip.
Sebastiano Timpanaro was born in Parma in 1923 and died in 2000. He studied classical philology at the University of Florence. His works include On Materialism and Freudian Slip, as well as major studies of Leopardi and Edmondo De Amicis.
