Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Since the boy is forced to repress his desire for the "maternal body" at a young age, Kristeva says he has not yet understood the situation in what way?
(a) Linguistically.
(b) Physically.
(c) Sexually.
(d) Logically.

2. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?
(a) Self-loathing.
(b) Sin.
(c) Evil.
(d) Narcissism.

3. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?
(a) André.
(b) Francis.
(c) Juan.
(d) Hans.

4. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?
(a) Density wave theory.
(b) Climax theory.
(c) Mood theory.
(d) Classic theory.

5. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?
(a) Kris.
(b) Rappaport.
(c) Hartmann.
(d) Freud.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kristeva name as the chief features of the abject?

2. What does Kristeva say it is necessary for a child to do because he has to repress his primal fears that still exist in him?

3. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?

4. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?

5. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?

(see the answer key)

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