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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud say the aggressive elements of a desire turn into when they are repressed?
(a) Remorse.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Symptoms.
(d) Nihilism.

2. Where does the conscience’s severity originate, according to Freud?
(a) In the ego’s experience of punishment.
(b) In the ego’s inability to distinguish between internal and external.
(c) In the ego’s refusal to renounce pleasure.
(d) In the ego’s hostility to external objects.

3. Where does Freud say society sets up institutions to monitor behavior?
(a) In people’s minds.
(b) In every family.
(c) In every patriarch.
(d) In every city.

4. What does Freud say is still necessary, if men are united in love?
(a) Prohibitions on property ownership.
(b) Others who are despised.
(c) Regulations on sexual behavior
(d) Others who are not yet initiated.

5. What does Freud say is Eros’ goal?
(a) To blur distinctions between individuals.
(b) To make individual lovers unique.
(c) To make one out of one.
(d) To make one out of many.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Freud say the ability to distinguish between good and evil comes from?

2. To what subject does Freud turn in order to know how society controls aggression?

3. What objection does Freud make against the Communist promise of economic equality?

4. What animal does Freud say man is to his fellow man?

5. What work does Freud say he has to do in therapy, in regard to the cultural super-ego?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Freud characterize the traditional view of the extremes of pleasure and pain in love?

2. What resistance does Freud offer to the notion that he should love his neighbor as himself?

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

4. How does Freud say society uses men’s aggression productively?

5. How does Freud explain the origin of remorse?

6. How does Freud characterize the emergence of the death instinct?

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

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

9. How does Freud characterize the opposition of egoism and altruism?

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

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