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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 destructive behavior is directed outward?

2. What does Freud say he would have to do to fulfill this motto?

3. Where does Freud say the remorse of conscience ultimately originates?

4. What does Freud say the libidinal elements of a desire turn into when they are repressed?

5. With what does Freud say guilt ultimately coincides?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Freud say unconscious guilt expresses itself?

2. What services does Freud say the Jewish people served for the Aryans in Europe?

3. How does Freud characterize the emergence of the death instinct?

4. What insights does Freud offer into the value of communism?

5. What does Freud say society does in order to accommodate the traits he sees in human nature?

6. What does Freud mean when he says that the problem of guilt as “the most important problem in the evolution of civilization”?

7. Where does Freud say the feeling of guilt originates?

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

9. What difficulty does Freud say he would expect in any analysis that sought to analyze society’s neuroses?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Would you recommend Civilization and Its Discontents? For what purposes would you recommend Civilization and Its Discontents, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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