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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 is the name of the new investigative tool that Freud uses to interpret dreams?

2. What is the name of the painting in the Cycle of Melusine that is a reference to Freud's dream of the bathers?

3. Schubert saw dreams as a detachment of the soul from the _____.

4. Freud says that many philosophers maintain that dreams have their origin in _____.

5. What is the likely result of selective interweaving of the elements of a dream during the condensation process?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What sort of language is expressed in dreams?

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

5. What is the function of the ego in dreams?

6. Why does the little boy in one of Freud's examples dream of cherries?

7. What is latent content of dreams?

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

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

10. What does Freud mean by "paradox of content"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Describe how Freud defines the complexity of dream meaning in terms of the translation of real world events into the primarily visual medium of dreaming. What problems does this pose? How is symbolism involved?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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