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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 accompanies destructive behavior?

2. Freud says that it is hard to see Eros and the death instinct unmixed together. Where does he say he might expect to see them?

3. Where does Freud say society sets up institutions to monitor behavior?

4. What does Freud say his love seems to be, to him?

5. What effect do violent men have on society?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Freud say society does in order to accommodate the traits he sees in human nature?

2. How does Freud explain the origin of remorse?

3. How pervasive does Freud say the human sentiments about property are?

4. How does Freud characterize the super-ego’s cultural function?

5. What difficulties does Freud say are involved in describing the death instinct?

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

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

8. What does Freud mean when he says that the problem of guilt as “the most important problem in the evolution of civilization”?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When is Civilization and Its Discontents most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

Essay Topic 2

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 3

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