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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. According to the editor, from what does the current American society suffer?

2. What does the editor say about the patient's healing in "The Making of Psychoanalysis"?

3. How many sections of introductory material are in this book?

4. What system of Freud's is dominated by the "talking" or "listening" cure?

5. What became an international organization prior to Freud's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Freud repeatedly write that he believes is innate in all of us?

2. According to Freud, what does the norm of having heterosexual parents present?

3. What does Freud suggest about children under five years old?

4. What two feelings greatly support the therapy process dealing with transference?

5. What are some of the conditions to having an effective psycho-analysis?

6. Briefly describe why Sigmund Freud is important to the field of psychology.

7. What was Charcot able to decipher in both men and women?

8. What happens to Rat Man, the patient who has obsessional neurosis?

9. What happens in radical transformation?

10. What symptoms did 'Dora' have after experiencing a sexual trauma?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define narcissism. What does Freud say about the human body in relation to narcissism? What is the difference between ego and object libido?

Essay Topic 2

What does Freud's overall purpose of psycho-analysis seem to be? How does he demonstrate that motivation through his work and research? What is the most important factor to receive the maximum benefits of psycho-analysis therapy?

Essay Topic 3

What is the difference between pleasure the principle and the reality principle? Why do people that live under the pleasure principle confuse fantasy for fact? Give examples from the book and explain what ramifications this difference might have on a patient.

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