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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 criminal's guilt in "The Dependent Relationships of the Ego and the Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex"?

2. Who does Freud mention putting forth the notion of "birth trauma"?

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

4. What country does Carl Jung mention having an accepted homosexuality outlook?

5. What other work was being done in the field of psychology at the same time as the "birth trauma"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ambivalence, according to Freud?

2. How does Freud view homosexuality?

3. How does Freud describe male homosexual mothers?

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

5. Why does Freud rename the subconscious?

6. What is a totem?

7. What is predominately related to incestuous feelings according to Freud?

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

9. What does Freud say about how a narcissistic person treats his or her body?

10. According to Freud, what will a therapist usually meet with in the beginning treatments of therapy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Freud mention being the force to set therapy in motion? How is this particular motivation detrimental to the patient's recovery process? What would Freud's term ambivalence have to do with this initiating 'force'?

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

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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