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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 does Freud say is the part of the session when many patients give the best information?

2. What does Freud find to be a consistent connection to his homosexual patients?

3. What happens to symptoms as their causes are laid bare?

4. What does Freud rename the term 'subconscious'?

5. According to Freud, how does a narcissistic individual treat his or her body?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Freud say about the Oedipal Complex?

2. According to Freud, when does criminality usually occur within a person?

3. Why does Freud mention the two famous painters in "Therapy and Technique"?

4. What is a totem?

5. According to Freud, what would not bode well within a patient therapist relationship?

6. What is predominately related to incestuous feelings according to Freud?

7. How does Freud view homosexuality?

8. How does Freud describe male homosexual mothers?

9. What two images of Moses are included in "Psychoanalysis in Culture"?

10. What does Freud mention being a common factor in homosexuals?

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 is the difference between pleasure the principle and the reality principle? Why do people that live under the pleasure principle confuse fantasy for fact? Give examples from the book and explain what ramifications this difference might have on a patient.

Essay Topic 3

What does Freud's overall purpose of psycho-analysis seem to be? How does he demonstrate that motivation through his work and research? What is the most important factor to receive the maximum benefits of psycho-analysis therapy?

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