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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 reason is given for using the name Dora?

2. According to Freud, what type of discernible relationship is typically found in what he calls the 'anal character'?

3. How long does Dora's analysis last?

4. What is periodic depression?

5. What is the result of Freud's patient's experience in the chapter "Dreams"?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Freud, what does the norm of having heterosexual parents present?

2. What does Freud say neuroses are linked to?

3. What was Charcot able to decipher in both men and women?

4. Briefly describe why Sigmund Freud is important to the field of psychology.

5. What two feelings greatly support the therapy process dealing with transference?

6. What does Freud suggest about children under five years old?

7. What happens to Rat Man, the patient who has obsessional neurosis?

8. What happens in radical transformation?

9. Why had sexuality been rejected prior to finding the cause of neuroses?

10. Briefly describe the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss what Freud terms as 'periodic depression.' What symptoms are typically seen in people suffering from periodic depression? What does Freud say about the outcome of treatment in these patients? Support your statements with quotes from the text.

Essay Topic 2

What does Freud discuss as being a common factor in the male homosexuals he analyzed? What does he mention in regards to a homosexual's mother and father?

Essay Topic 3

Considering Freud's contribution to the field of psychoanalysis, why do you think Freud hated philosophy so much? In what ways is his disdain for philosophy paradoxical? Do you think if Freud were alive today, he would see his view of philosophy as paradoxical?

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