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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the totemic stage of society based on, according to Freud’s Totem and Taboo?

2. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?

3. What does Freud say is the point of order and regulation?

4. Who does Freud say are the parents of human cultures?

5. What does Freud’s friend say he wishes Freud appreciated more fully?

Short Essay Questions

1. What misconception does Freud dispel at the end of Chapter 3?

2. How does Freud characterize the roles of Eros and Ananke in the development of civilization?

3. What are the three palliative remedies to the unbearable difficulty of life?

4. What does Freud say are the benefits and dangers of intoxication?

5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of denying the world, in Freud's account?

6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of beauty as a consolation for the difficulties of reality?

7. Where does Freud say suffering comes from?

8. What does Freud say is the difference between love and aim-inhibited love?

9. How does Freud say the love instinct has changed throughout the development of civilization?

10. What role does Freud say the regulation of human relations played in the development of civilization?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

Essay Topic 2

In Freud's account, guilt and the super-ego require sacrifices in order to be allayed. Where in contemporary culture do you find people making sacrifices, and what feelings are they assuaging by making them?

Essay Topic 3

According to Freud, the problem of guilt is the biggest problem facing the evolution of culture. How has this ‘problem’ been addressed, and how has it led to the further evolution of civilization? Using an example from contemporary culture, find the mechanisms Freud is talking about in.

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