Your significant other asks you to buy milk on the way home and you forget. A psychodynamic practitioner would argue that this is because you are mad at your significant other. This would be an example of:

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Psychic determination is a concept in psychodynamic theory suggesting that all behaviors, thoughts, and emotions, including forgetting something, have a cause rooted in the unconscious mind. In this case, forgetting to buy milk is seen as not accidental but rather as an expression of unconscious anger towards the significant other.

Your Significant Other Asks You to Buy Milk on the Way