In contrast to those who take up psycho-analysis now, Freud seems to have been remarkably well-adjusted – if books such as The Psycho-Pathology of Everyday Life are anything to go by. Much of it is self-analysis, and even the examples of others are pieces of self-analysis sent to Freud by those people. The key is that rather than becoming annoyed at oneself for a lapse of memory, a moment of clumsiness, a misreading or a slip, there is another reason that emerges from the unconscious. The uncons