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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 say about predominate cases of incestuous activity?

2. What does Freud frequently write about being connected to incestuous feelings?

3. What does Freud say DaVinci bases his students acceptance on?

4. According to Freud, in what decade did this man put forth the idea of "birth trauma"?

5. How long is a typical therapeutic session?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ambivalence, according to Freud?

2. What does Carl Jung write about on Indian men and homosexuality?

3. What two images of Moses are included in "Psychoanalysis in Culture"?

4. Why does Freud rename the subconscious?

5. What does Freud say about the Oedipal Complex?

6. When are totem animal's names used?

7. How are symptoms destroyed, according to Freud?

8. Why does Freud mention the two famous painters in "Therapy and Technique"?

9. According to Freud, when does criminality usually occur within a person?

10. How does Freud define narcissism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss what Freud terms as 'periodic depression.' What symptoms are typically seen in people suffering from periodic depression? What does Freud say about the outcome of treatment in these patients? Support your statements with quotes from the text.

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 does Freud discuss as being a common factor in the male homosexuals he analyzed? What does he mention in regards to a homosexual's mother and father?

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