For those who don’t know the history of the word JigaBoo.
Here is a quick refresher.
“Jigaboo” was used mostly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in association with the mockery of stereotypical African-American physical features. Today, Webster’s Dictionary says it means “a black person” and makes quite clear that it is “slang,” “disparaging,” and “offensive.”
According to RG3, he was trying to say bugaboo.
A Bug-a-boo could be defined as.
An annoying stalkerish person who won’t leave you alone.
In RG3’s world, he claims he was trying to say that regarding people who hated Jalen Hurts but are now quiet about his success.
This is what most people would call a Freudian slip.
In psychoanalysis, a Freudian slip, also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that occurs due to the interference of an unconscious subdued wish or internal train of thought. Classical examples involve slips of the tongue, but psychoanalytic theory also embraces misreadings, mishearings, mistypings, temporary forgettings, and the mislaying and losing of objects.
In general use, the term ‘Freudian slip’ has been debased to refer to any accidental slips of the tongue. Thus many examples are found in explanations and dictionaries which do not strictly fit the psychoanalytic definition.
For example: She: ‘What would you like—bread and butter, or cake?’ He: ‘Bed and butter.’
In the above, the man may be presumed to have a sexual feeling or intention that he wished to leave unexpressed, not a sexual feeling or intention that was dynamically repressed. His s*xual intention was therefore secret, rather than subconscious, and any ‘parapraxis’ would inhere in the idea that he unconsciously wished to express that intention, rather than in the s*xual connotation of the substitution. Freudians might point out, however, that this is simply a description of what Freud and Breuer termed the preconscious which Freud defined as thoughts that are not presently conscious but can become conscious without meeting any resistance. In Freud’s theory, he allows parapraxes to be generated in the preconscious, so he would allow for thoughts that one tries to put outside of consciousness to have effects on conscious actions.
The question begs if it was a Freudian slip that would mean somewhere in RG3’s subconscious, that word lives in his mind.
Which would lead to a lot of other questions.
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