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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. When does destructive energy typically elude the researcher’s gaze, according to Freud?
(a) When it takes place in intimate relationships.
(b) When it is employed in limiting a person’s potential.
(c) When it is turned inward.
(d) When it is expressed politically.

2. What does the conscience take the place of?
(a) The super-ego.
(b) The death instinct.
(c) External authority.
(d) The pleasure principle.

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

4. 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?
(a) Neurotics.
(b) Religious types.
(c) Infants.
(d) Extreme cases.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freud say is Eros’ goal?

2. How does Freud say society endeavors to restrict violence?

3. What does Freud say is the outcome of the struggle between libido and the interests of self-preservation?

4. How does Freud characterize the phenomena he is describing?

5. What does Freud say love seeks for?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Freud say that primitive man was indeed happier than civilized man?

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

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

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

5. What is the role of misfortune in the formation of the super-ego, according to Freud?

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

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

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

9. Where does Freud say the feeling of guilt originates?

10. How does Freud say unconscious guilt expresses itself?

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