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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 does Freud say that dreams were regarded by pre-scientific people upon wakening in terms of manifestation of higher powers?

2. Who is sitting on the bench with Freud in the dream where he is riding in a carriage?

3. What was the antique shawl that Freud gave one of his friends a charm against?

4. Freud sees philosophers as _____ dreams.

5. The injection dream reminds Freud of his first visit to _____.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Freud discover the meaning of the propyl injection in one of his dreams?

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

4. What happens when there is nothing in common between dream thoughts?

5. What are the contradictory concepts in the woman's dream about the flower stalk?

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

7. What is latent content of dreams?

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

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

10. How does Freud suggest that dreams are read?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the importance of symbolism in dreams. How is it used in dream interpretation? How much of a dream can be analyzed this way?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Compare Freud's opinion of the meaning dreams in pre-scientific days to the meaning of dreams in his time. What was the basis of determining the meaning of dreams in pre-scientific days? How had this changed in Freud's time?

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