Explaining an Historical Puzzle
Freudian Errors and the Origin of the Declaration on the Policy of "Unconditional Surrender" in the Second World War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6336707 |
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| Authors | Tuvia Ben-Moshe, Tuvia Ben‐moshe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 697 |
| Publication date | 1993-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-895X • E-ISSN: 1467-9221 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3791381 |
| OpenAlex | W2314789630 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Historians have long been perplexed over the strange and incompatible versions of Churchill and Roosevelt concerning the declaration on the policy Unconditional Surrender at the 1943 Casablanca conference. This controversial policy had been of high importance in shaping the Western Allies' strategy in the Second World War. In light of the available documents and the attitudes of the two men before and after the declaration, most researchers believe that their versions were not correct. This article rearranges the known facts, interpreting them through the Freudian explanation of common human errors such as a slip of the tongue and a mislaying (parapraxes
Declaration · Freudian slip · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Surrender · World War II · Law · Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law
| Highly cited | No |
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