[The Germanator]

Just thought I'd revive this because I'm reading a book for the first time in a long while and it's one of the most interesting and fascinating books. It's Sigmund Freud's The Psychopathology of Everyday Life and the first three chapters have all been about the reasons why you forget simple proper names or words. It turns out that the greatest reason is some sort of sub-conscious repression of either something associated with the word or name, or that the repressed item sounds similar to the forgotten word. It's sort of complicated for me to explain since Freud is way way way smarter than me, but if you have any interest in psychology, I reccomend this one.