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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. What does Freud say is the first requirement of civilization?

2. What does Freud say civilization could not survive without?

3. What does the infant fail to understand about the milk it receives from the breast?

4. What does Freud say about the adult ego?

5. How does Freud characterize the law culture has to obey through each of its members?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Freud say is the difference between love and aim-inhibited love?

2. What are the three palliative remedies to the unbearable difficulty of life?

3. What role does Freud say the regulation of human relations played in the development of civilization?

4. When does Freud say this view came into fashion?

5. How does Freud characterize the roles of Eros and Ananke in the development of civilization?

6. What is the importance of the argument about conservation in the mind?

7. How does Freud say instincts react when they are resisted through intoxication or through other forms of avoidance?

8. What is Freud’s personal feeling about religion?

9. What are the advantages and disadvantages of denying the world, in Freud's account?

10. How does Freud characterize modern progress?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Freud's account, guilt and the super-ego require sacrifices in order to be allayed. Where in contemporary culture do you find people making sacrifices, and what feelings are they assuaging by making them?

Essay Topic 2

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 3

Freud says that society is a living organism that externalizes the life of the individual and follows the same psychological patterns. Using an example from current events, find the mechanisms Freud is talking about in a cultural phenomenon.

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