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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say the dangerous and hostile aspects of love are typically attributed to?
(a) Neurotic self-destructiveness.
(b) Flaws in human nature.
(c) A fundamental bipolarity in its nature.
(d) Sublimation of the pleasure principle.

2. Which part of psychoanalysis does Freud say has developed most slowly?
(a) The theory of instincts.
(b) Analytic theory.
(c) The theory of aggression.
(d) The theory of artistic creativity.

3. What does Freud compare civilization to?
(a) A repressive regime.
(b) A diplomatic mission.
(c) A permissive regime.
(d) A form of market haggling.

4. What does Freud say is the only branch of knowledge that can answer the question of the purpose of life?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Religion.

5. What does the libido cathect in a narcissist, according to Freud?
(a) The father.
(b) The ego.
(c) Society.
(d) The beloved.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud posit in the conclusion of Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)?

2. Who does Freud say are the parents of human cultures?

3. What does a person who has science and art have, according to the poet Freud quotes?

4. What objection does Freud raise, to this highest kind of love?

5. How does Freud characterize the aim of the modified sex instinct, in people who find happiness along the path of love?

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