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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 did Jung revisit his childhood memory in adulthood?

2. How did Jung encounter Freud?

3. What resulted from Jung's new, more playful direction?

4. How did Jung feel about his mother?

5. What was Jung afraid of as a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Neitzsche's reputation when Jung was in school?

2. Describe Jung's decision to study psychiatry.

3. Where did Jung find spiritual life that seemed honest?

4. What importance does Jung's childhood have for him?

5. What event gave Jung his fear of "men in black frocks"?

6. What was Jung's blasphemous dream?

7. Describe Jung's university years.

8. How did Jung experience religion in his youth?

9. What limitations did Jung see in Freud?

10. What did Jung gain from Freud's approach to treating mental illness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would you summarize Jung's life? What words are most appropriate for describing his accomplishment? Make a case for three or four words.

Essay Topic 2

What role did literature and philosophy play in Jung's accomplishments? Were literature and philosophy opposed to direct experience and observation, or did they work together?

Essay Topic 3

Jung attributes some degree of eternality to his childhood experiences, and he theorizes the collective unconscious as a wellspring of human experience. What role is left for the individual to play? Is the daimon the figure who determines the individual's fate, or is it the individual who chooses his or her fate?

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