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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 makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Puer.
(c) Senex.
(d) Anima.

2. What does Kristeva say it is necessary for a child to do because he has to repress his primal fears that still exist in him?
(a) Ignore them.
(b) Adapt to them.
(c) Get rid of them.
(d) Learn to express them.

3. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?
(a) Original sin.
(b) The holy trinity.
(c) Nuclear family.
(d) Evolution.

4. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?
(a) Not being a subject.
(b) Not being an object.
(c) Being nothing.
(d) Being a subject.

5. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?
(a) His mother's body.
(b) His toys.
(c) His father.
(d) His parents' love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?

2. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?

3. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?

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

5. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?

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