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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. The acceptance of _____ is something found in dream work.

2. What does the boy in Baldwin Groller's tale want?

3. Freud calls his theory of the formation of dreams _____.

4. The desires in meaningful dreams are _____.

5. The second psychical apparatus has the advantage that its products find _____ to consciousness.

Short Essay Questions

1. How do speeches use the same idea as calculations in dreams?

2. Why is displacement the most striking of all dream performances?

3. What is the difference between internal and external stimulus?

4. How is the figure of three florins, sixty-five kreuzers reached in the woman from Vienna's dream?

5. Why does Freud decline to use parts of the dream about Mrs. E. L. to reveal his own repressed thoughts?

6. Why is the boy in the story by Baldwin Groller considered a "bad boy"?

7. What type of dream that expresses a desire is invariably accompanied by a feeling of dread and why?

8. What is the nature of adult dreams, according to Freud?

9. What is the difference between adults and children in terms of the knowledge of reality?

10. What types of symbols exist in dreams?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Name and explain the three classes of dreams that Freud classifies. Who has these particular dreams? How are manifest and latent content ascribed to dreams of each class?

Essay Topic 2

Define the role of censorship in relation to dreams. What are the two parts of the psychical apparatus involved in the construction of thoughts? Why does Freud see censorship as a borderland between these two parts? What happens to the balance of power between these parts during sleep?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the dream Freud has of Mrs. E.L. How does he analyze this dream? What conclusions about dream interpretation does he come to as a result of this analysis?

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