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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 wise men have ever warned against?

2. What does Freud say is the highest state of mind deemed capable for man?

3. What source of energy does Freud say man uses up by investing in civilization?

4. What does Freud say is the danger of intoxication?

5. What does Freud say about the question of what meaning life has?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where does Freud says that the man’s need for religion comes from?

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

5. What is Freud's response to his friend's feeling?

6. How does Freud describe the effect of changes in the human olfactory sense on civilization?

7. How does Freud describe the evolution of the adult ego?

8. How does Freud say the love instinct has changed throughout the development of civilization?

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

10. Why does Freud say progress has not made modern man any happier?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 2

When is Civilization and Its Discontents most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

Essay Topic 3

According to Freud, guilt regulates the internal urges of each individual, although Freud says that by so doing, it engenders resentment that has to be repressed in turn, engendering further guilt. This cycle could result in an eternal spiral of repression and aggression and guilt—what keeps it from becoming psychologically damaging, or out of control?

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