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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. Which inventor does Freud compare his discoveries to?

2. Who attacks the writings of Mr. M--- in Freud's dream?

3. What does Freud say did not accompany any aspect of the dream process in regards to his dream of Mrs. E.L.?

4. What does Mrs. E.L. comment on in Freud's dream?

5. In Freud's estimation, the dream about Mrs. E.L. is used as an example because it has the advantage of _____.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Freud view as the popular view of the nature of dreams?

4. What is manifest content of dreams?

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

6. What is latent content of dreams?

7. Why does the sick girl in one of Freud's examples dream of being too big for the bed she is sleeping in?

8. Why does the eight-year-old boy in one of Freud's examples dream of mythical events?

9. How does Freud use psychoanalysis when he has a patient experiences morbid dread?

10. What does Freud quote Schubert as saying about dreams and what is meant by this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define the role of censorship in relation to dreams. What are the two parts of the psychical apparatus involved in the construction of thoughts? Why does Freud see censorship as a borderland between these two parts? What happens to the balance of power between these parts during sleep?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the significance of forgetting aspects of a dream upon waking. What does censorship have to do with this? What does repression have to do with this?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the importance of the sleep state in dreaming. What is its importance in childhood? How does it change in adulthood?

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