What we now call Freudian speech, Sigmund Freud called parapraxis. The renowned Austrian psychiatrist believed that this is when our repressed thoughts, feelings and motives emerge. According to Freud, stuttering is evidence of the operation of unconscious forces and can never be considered an innocent mistake.
"Every speech has its own reason. In fact, sometimes serious self-revelation occurs through speaking out," he wrote in his book The Psychopathology of Everyday Life hence the name Freudian speaking out. In such cases, our hidden thoughts and repressed consciousness make their way. The strict control function of the inhibitory functions relaxes for a moment, and the words that are wandering below the threshold of consciousness and are not meant to be spoken come to the surface.
Below, we have collected, without claiming to be complete, how the potentates of our opposition spoke, so that everyone can draw the conclusion according to the taste of their own mouth, what they could have really thought at the moment of speaking.
Gergely Arató, the politician of the DK, found himself saying this in the ATV studio last May, when the first wave of the epidemic started, as if he was cheering for the virus:
"Out of a hundred thousand people, how many are dead? In Hungary - sorry for speaking in broken numbers, but they express it in millions - it is 4.6, in Slovakia it is 12. But the situation is similar: in Poland 3, in the Czech Republic 2. So, speaking in Hungarian, Hungary is unfortunately not bad in this number either."
In June 2020, Imre László, the mayor of Újbuda, also from DK was confused about what he had to say in the morning program of Heti TV , when he explained to the presenter what the debate in the representative body was about regarding the renaming of a public area. According to the mayor, they wanted to name a park after Josef Mengele, the cruel doctor of the Auschwitz death camp, in the 11th century. district. When the presenter asked if he was really talking about the Nazi war criminal, László realized that he was not referring to Josef Mengele, but to Nelson Mandela.
In 2018, after the parliamentary elections, Bertalan Tóth, the president of the MSZP , when he told the cameras with an unflappable face at the swearing-in ceremony that
"we don't want to represent three thirds, but a whole."
The peculiarity of the case is that the statement of Tóth, who holds a doctorate, law and economics (!) degrees, did not contain any backbiting, grumbling, whispering, but one more "you're stupid, Berci!" - he didn't even elicit a silent half-sentence from his comrades. Nothing stood out to them. They continued to seriously listen to their boss's logically structured and organized festive speech.
Many of Ferenc Gyurcsány's speeches have become well-known over the years, about contracts, aging wives, pounding pounds, snaking snakes and the fact that "DK must be replaced" , so now we prefer to quote his thoughts that are less well-known or simply no longer we remember them.
The following excerpt comes from Gyurcsány's letter dated August 17, 1988, which he sent to the party secretaries of the higher education institutions in Pécs (Janus Pannonius University, Pécs University of Medicine, Pollák Mihály College of Technology):
"I believe that the KISZ must use political means to act against the efforts it considers unacceptable, it must use political work to isolate the Fidesz groups that may be formed."
Then in September 1996 he told Népszabadság:
"Of course, I know that it is not usual to turn three million forints into a multibillion-dollar company in four years. But I have no secret: I was a violent rural child who dared to dream even when he was a politician, and he still dreams now."
And in July 2003:
"[My company started leasing the property in Balatonőszöd when] the goal of the then-incumbent government was to create a national middle class of owners."
According to them, the development of the "national owner middle class" - in today's parlance of the left, the "rich" - is to be welcomed if it is promoted by a left-wing government, but to be persecuted if it is done by a right-wing government. We understand.
The following Gyurcsányi sentence was published by Magyar Nemzet Online in February 2004:
"Someone might think that this is Mary's country, but as I see it, Mary has definitely taken her hand off it, and only we are here, we can shape it."
And in February 2005, at the MSZP's 15th birthday celebration, he was able to say in connection with the performance of the Hungarian national team playing against Saudi Arabia that
"our athletes played with death-defying courage against the Arab terrorists".
In March 2005, we were also able to read the following speech on MNO, which was delivered at one of the stations of the event series " Afternoon Tea with the Prime Minister
"Vote for me and I'll lower prices, increase benefits and raise, er, lower taxes."
Gergely Karácsony can't be said to be stingy with astonishing statements either, such was, for example, the thought expressed by LMP's Erzsébet Schmuck at a campaign event in Nagykáta :
"Let there be a constitutional peace in Hungary that requires the end of Fidesz as we know it now. Including the voters who now believe these politicians.”
In an interview with the German liberal Die Zeit, he stated that "ensuring the rights of asylum seekers is their moral duty" and part of their program, but they will not write this on any poster because "they cannot win the election with this."
Péter Jakab also brought himself down when he said, according to an audio recording, that he doesn't simply want to join forces with the archenemy for power, but with the archenemy that he knows exactly has stolen.
"It was very difficult with those we came up against. Because Jobbik was created against thieves, let's face it. In the meantime, we will have to march into battle with those from whom we are separated by worlds."
Finally, here is the eternal treasure of Péter Márki Zay, which he said in public, as the winner of the opposition primary election:
Because we will stand up against all Hungarians!
