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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 type of reminiscences are typical of dreams?

2. Where is Freud sitting with Mrs. E.L. in his dream?

3. The third group of dreams is categorized as _____.

4. What does Freud say aspects of the process of dream analysis are analogous to that of?

5. What illness does the girl that has the dream about the bed have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is does Freud think the role of love is in the dream of Mrs. E.L.?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How do the photographs of Francis Galton relate to Freud's idea of common factors in dreams?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain what Freud means by dream displacement. How does this relate to dream condensation? What is the importance of events that happen the day before the dream in illustrating the concept of dream displacement?

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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