Freudian slip – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of some unconscious (“dynamically repressed”) wish, conflict, or train of thought

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Notwithstanding | Define Notwithstanding at Dictionary.com

not·with·stand·ing

[not-with-stan-ding, -with-] Show IPA

–preposition

1.

in spite of; without being opposed or prevented by: Notwithstanding a brilliant defense, he was found guilty. She went to the game anyway, doctor’s orders notwithstanding.

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[Criminal Law] The insanity defense does not negate any mens rea. That’s the point. It is an affirmative defense. Diminished capacity, however, can negate any mens rea if the People fail to prove, notwithstanding the D’s mental illness, that he formed the mens rea.