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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. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?
(a) A stage in childhood development.
(b) A necessary stage in natural selection.
(c) A literary device.
(d) A metaphor.

2. Kristeva says the abject is never considered to be what?
(a) A question.
(b) An argument.
(c) A pseudo-object.
(d) A substance.

3. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?
(a) Their background.
(b) Language.
(c) Other people.
(d) Art.

4. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?
(a) Inexpressible.
(b) Unknown.
(c) Misunderstood.
(d) Explainable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?

2. Since the boy is forced to repress his desire for the "maternal body" at a young age, Kristeva says he has not yet understood the situation in what way?

3. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?

4. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?

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

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