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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. The dream is a significant ___________ tool.

2. Freud notes that people are not ___________ enough in dreams to remember them.

3. Freud does not say there is only one kind of dream as this theory would be easily _________.

4. While dreams are unreal, the ________ that occur in the dream are real.

5. What leads to a deeper study of dream problems?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Freud believe is quote foolish to do?

2. As what is the displacement of the dream carried out?

3. What is the first issue Freud addresses regarding the dream as wish fulfillment?

4. Freud says that dream interpretation can be problematic because it should not be based on what?

5. What is the concern about the disguise of the dream?

6. What does Freud mention about the dreams in which he has seen numbers and calculations?

7. Whose studies on children does Freud refer to and why?

8. Why is the scientific world left without proper methods for interpreting dreams?

9. Freud says that a scene or wish in the unconscious progresses toward the pre-conscious. What happens then?

10. In part one, for what does Freud propose to show a technique for interpreting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dreams, as Freud believes, are considered to be foreign to our everyday lives and experiences. However, is this the case? In everyday life, we might have one experience and then dream about that same experience. Does this support the idea of dreams being foreign? What do you think Freud means by that? Can you give one example in which dreams become foreign in relation to real life?

Essay Topic 2

The forgetting of dreams is a big topic of debate for Freud as he seems to believe it is not that dreams cannot be remembered, but that a patient's view of dreams is what stands in the way of his memory. What evidence does Freud offer to support this theory? Does he ever seem to contradict himself in this idea? What other reasons does Freud give for the forgetting of dreams? What do you personally believe makes one forget about dreams?

Essay Topic 3

Symbols are a big part of dream interpretation. Using one dream in Freud's book, list all of the symbols you can find. Then, create your own interpretations of each of these symbols. Knowing these interpretations, what can you ascertain about the meaning of the dream you have chosen? Without these symbols, what would you have interpreted the dream to mean?

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