Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Quiz Questions | Quiz: Psychoanalytic criticism

Quiz: Psychoanalytic criticism

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

Directions: Circle the correct answer.

1. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," many of Sigmund Freud's ideas concern aspects of ________.
a) Conservation.
b) Sexuality.
c) Humanity.
d) Death.

2. Which of the following terms best fit the following definition: "a form of literary criticism which uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature"?
a) Psychoanalytic criticism.
b) Applied criticism.
c) Impressionistic criticism.
d) Practical criticism.

3. Which of the following works did the narrator believe to be the most important Lacanian text for literary students and which was first delivered in 1957 to a "lay" audience of philosophy students?
a) The Insistence of the Letter.
b) Fetishism: the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real.
c)...
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