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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 relation between ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ and ‘love thine enemies’?
2. How does Freud characterize the state of society in which couples are satisfied libidinally, and society is joined together through work and common interests?
3. What does Freud say the feeling of guilt expresses?
4. What does Freud posit in the conclusion of Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)?
5. What is the ego instinct antithetical to, according to Freud?
Short Essay Questions
1. What difficulties does Freud say are involved in describing the death instinct?
2. What conclusion does Freud’s discussion of the Golden Rule lead him to make about human nature?
3. How does Freud say society uses men’s aggression productively?
4. What goal does Freud say the instincts are leading man toward?
5. Where does Freud say the feeling of guilt originates?
6. What difficulty does Freud say he would expect in any analysis that sought to analyze society’s neuroses?
7. 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?
8. How does Freud say unconscious guilt expresses itself?
9. In what way does Freud say that primitive man was indeed happier than civilized man?
10. What does Freud say society does in order to accommodate the traits he sees in human nature?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Freud does not say as much, but the ability to penetrate unconscious behavior, and bring invisible phenomena to light gives the analyst a real power over patients and in his culture. How does this authority fit within Freud’s explanations of religion, authority, dread and guilt? How does the analyst separate himself—can he separate himself from the fatherly or priestly role?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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