Sigmund Freud published his "Psychopathology of Everyday Life" 120 years ago.
The founder of psychoanalysis showed that seemingly insignificant mistakes - slip of the tongue, misplacing objects or forgetting of appointments - are often expressions of repressed urges or desires.
A dutiful manager forgets the deadline of a meeting she is afraid of. A man greets the unwelcome guests with the words: “It's good that you are gone!” A woman misplaces her husband's present; she unconsciously wants to get rid of him. In recent days, the Left Party, the Greens and the SPD have shown through a series of Freudian mistakes that they definitely do not want to govern the country.