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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. How does guilt express itself, according to Freud?
2. What does Freud say is the limit of Eros?
3. What comparison does Freud make between the Devil and Jews?
4. How does Freud describe the libido’s disinclination to relinquish an old position for a new one?
5. What does Freud say he seeks in scientific work?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Freud say society does in order to accommodate the traits he sees in human nature?
2. How does Freud characterize the super-ego’s cultural function?
3. What difficulties does Freud say are involved in describing the death instinct?
4. In what regard to human beings differ from animals, in Freud's account?
5. In what three spheres does Freud see the same interplay between Eros and death playing out?
6. How does Freud characterize the mindset of people who do not appreciate the reality he is describing, of hostility as a fundamental force of human nature?
7. How does Freud describe the super-ego?
8. How does Freud describe the function of narcissism in the ego?
9. What resistance does Freud offer to the notion that he should love his neighbor as himself?
10. How does Freud say society uses men’s aggression productively?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Identify the most important plot points in Civilization and Its Discontents. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?
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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