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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 that the popular view of the interpretation of dreams is grounded in?

2. The _____ are longer in the third category of dreams.

3. Freud says that many philosophers maintain that dreams have their origin in _____.

4. Freud has a dream about an injection of _____.

5. Who helps the woman out of the water in Freud's dream about the bathers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the nature of Freud's relationship with Mrs. E.L.?

2. What happens when there is nothing in common between dream thoughts?

3. What does Freud mean by the "common mean"?

4. Why does the little boy in one of Freud's examples dream of cherries?

5. Why does the eight-year-old boy in one of Freud's examples dream of mythical events?

6. In Freud's dream example of the bathers, how does condensation occur?

7. What is does Freud think the role of love is in the dream of Mrs. E.L.?

8. What is latent content of dreams?

9. What issues come to Freud's mind regarding manifest and latent content?

10. How does Freud describe the dreamer's reaction to dreams upon waking?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define the role of censorship in relation to dreams. What are the two parts of the psychical apparatus involved in the construction of thoughts? Why does Freud see censorship as a borderland between these two parts? What happens to the balance of power between these parts during sleep?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the wish-fulfillment dreams of children and adults.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the importance of symbolism in dreams. How is it used in dream interpretation? How much of a dream can be analyzed this way?

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