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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 suggest often happens during infantile masturbation in childhood development?

2. What did Freud's mentor decipher?

3. What type of change do sexual instincts undergo during this period of psychoanalysis?

4. What happens in the pre-pubescent period of child development?

5. What does Freud include about one's sexual preference?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In what language was Freud's original work written and how might this affect Freud's work?

4. Explain what was paradoxical about Freud's attitude toward philosophy.

5. What is specifically difficult about the subject of psychology?

6. Briefly describe the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.

7. What does Freud say about repressed material?

8. How does Freud describe Charcot?

9. What does Freud say happens to children at twelve years old?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Considering neuroses and hysteria, discuss these symptoms and their relation to sexually related experiences. What does Freud conclude about the anxiety from neuroses in women? Give specific examples of his research in your essay.

Essay Topic 2

Considering Anna O., one of Freud's first and classical patients of psychotherapy, how do you think her illness contributed to the field of psychology? What discovery was made through Anna O.'s treatment? Provide examples and quote the book to support your position.

Essay Topic 3

In relation to therapy, why is it important that sometimes a patient has to forgo immediate pleasures for superior pleasure later on? Give examples from the book.

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