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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 hero does the boy of eight dream of?

2. What sort of associations does Freud say disturb our thoughts?

3. Mrs. E.L. was the daughter of a man to whom Freud _____.

4. Whose family photographs does Freud use as an example of common factors in a composite?

5. What does Freud say that the popular view of the interpretation of dreams is grounded in?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Freud's dream example of the bathers, how does condensation occur?

2. What is Freud's impression of the ideas about dreams that were espoused by the medical profession of his time?

3. What issues come to Freud's mind regarding manifest and latent content?

4. What is the role of self-criticism in relation to morbid dread?

5. Why does the five-year-old boy in one of Freud's examples dream of ascending the Dachstein?

6. What is manifest content of dreams?

7. What happens if the idea of dream displacement is abolished during analysis?

8. What does Freud mean by the "common mean"?

9. How does Freud feel that the dream's means of expression compare to that of a person's imagination?

10. How does Freud describe the dreamer's reaction to dreams upon waking?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Freud's idea on the reasons for absurdity in dreams. Use the dream of Mr. M--- as an example. Why is this dream absurd? What role does absurdity play in determining the meaning of the dream?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the three tendencies Freud mentions in the interpretation of dreams. Who believes and espouses the different tendencies? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the three classes of dreams in relation to the realization of desire. Where does repression fit in and to what degree for each category?

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