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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 the concept of narcissism make it possible to see, in Freud's account?

2. How does Freud say aggression is turned innocuous?

3. How does Freud say he can tell that the death instinct exists?

4. How does guilt express itself, according to Freud?

5. What does Freud say happens when men do not exercise their aggression?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what regard to human beings differ from animals, in Freud's account?

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

4. What conclusion does Freud’s discussion of the Golden Rule lead him to make about human nature?

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

6. How does Freud say unconscious guilt expresses itself?

7. How, according to Freud, do other people figure differently in sensual love and social love?

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

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

10. What goal does Freud say the instincts are leading man toward?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

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