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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 does Freud say men seek in their lives?

2. What notion is it that “draws up the programme of life’s purpose” in Freud's account?

3. What does Freud say society’s principal endeavor is?

4. Which of man’s conceptions does Freud say men embodied in gods?

5. What does a person have who does not have science or art, according to the poet Freud?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Freud describe the evolution of the adult ego?

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

3. When does Freud say this view came into fashion?

4. How does Freud describe the effect of changes in the human olfactory sense on civilization?

5. What does Freud say is the typical attitude about civilization’s disadvantages?

6. How does the role of women change, as men began to feel torn between sensual and aim-inhibited love?

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

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

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

10. What does Freud say is the end-result of a civilization?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write an evaluative review of Civilization and Its Discontents. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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