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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?
(a) Literal.
(b) Physical.
(c) Logical.
(d) Metaphorical.

2. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?
(a) Density wave theory.
(b) Mood theory.
(c) Classic theory.
(d) Climax theory.

3. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?
(a) Flawed.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Perfect.
(d) Deficient.

4. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?
(a) Hate.
(b) Desire.
(c) Love.
(d) Fear.

5. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?
(a) An unspecified object.
(b) A definite object.
(c) A vague aim.
(d) Roots in reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kristeva, boys eventually resign themselves to the fact that they can never have their mothers' bodies out of fear of whom?

2. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?

3. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?

4. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?

5. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject cannot be acknowledged through what?

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