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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 he seeks in scientific work?

2. How does Freud say society endeavors to restrict violence?

3. Where does Freud say man’s sense of guilt originates?

4. To whom are sexual frustrations intolerable, according to Freud?

5. When does destructive energy typically elude the researcher’s gaze, according to Freud?

Short Essay Questions

1. How, according to Freud, do other people figure differently in sensual love and social love?

2. What does Freud mean when he says that the problem of guilt as “the most important problem in the evolution of civilization”?

3. How does Freud characterize the super-ego’s cultural function?

4. What is the role of misfortune in the formation of the super-ego, according to Freud?

5. How does Freud characterize the mindset of people who do not appreciate the reality he is describing, of hostility as a fundamental force of human nature?

6. How does Freud describe the super-ego?

7. What difficulties does Freud say are involved in describing the death instinct?

8. In what way does Freud say that primitive man was indeed happier than civilized man?

9. How does Freud describe the function of narcissism in the ego?

10. Where does Freud say the feeling of guilt originates?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 2

How would you rewrite Civilization and Its Discontents, if you were to adapt it and make it your own. What part of the book would you preserve? What part would you change? Explain your motivation for the changes you would make.

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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