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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 feeling does Freud say is associated with the negation of aggression?

2. What does Freud say a man feels as a result of a cultural super-ego?

3. What does Freud say intensifies the strength of the conscience?

4. Which does Freud say comes first?

5. How does Freud describe society relationship with sexuality?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what three spheres does Freud see the same interplay between Eros and death playing out?

2. How do sadism and masochism reveal the interplay between Eros and death instincts, in Freud's account?

3. What is the role of misfortune in the formation of the super-ego, according to Freud?

4. Where does Freud say the feeling of guilt originates?

5. What insights does Freud offer into the value of communism?

6. How does Freud explain the origin of remorse?

7. What goal does Freud say the instincts are leading man toward?

8. What difficulty does Freud say he would expect in any analysis that sought to analyze society’s neuroses?

9. What does Freud mean when he says that hunger and love make the world go around?

10. In what way does Freud say that primitive man was indeed happier than civilized man?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an evaluative review of Civilization and Its Discontents. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 2

According to Freud, guilt regulates the internal urges of each individual, although Freud says that by so doing, it engenders resentment that has to be repressed in turn, engendering further guilt. This cycle could result in an eternal spiral of repression and aggression and guilt—what keeps it from becoming psychologically damaging, or out of control?

Essay Topic 3

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

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