New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Quizzes

New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Quiz 1

By B.C. Parris · Edited by S.R. Cedars · Last reviewed August 18, 2013

1 In what city did Freud first deliver his Introductory Lectures?

Paris

London

Berlin

Vienna
2 What is the topic of Freud’s first new lecture?

Femininity

Anxiety

Dreams and Dream Theory

Occultism
3 What is the name of Freud’s innovative psychological science?

Group Psychology

psychotherapy

Individual Psychology

psychoanalysis
4 Why are dreams important to Freud’s theories?

Dreams predict the future.

Dreams represent the patient's illness.

Dreams are mystical events of telepathic communication.

Dreams are determined by unconscious, repressed urges.
5 Name Freud’s term for a dream's capacity to combine disparate elements.

condensation

displacement

evaporation

alchemy
6 Why does Freud think it is important for psychoanalysts to continue discussing and investigating dreams?

Dreams are more real than waking life.

Psychoanalysis still does not know what drives dreams.

Dreams show the truth to the dreamer.

Dreams are the only way analysts can learn about a patient’s repressed, unconscious urges.
7 Freud divides the content of dreams into two parts. What are they?

external and internal

latent and manifest

inner and outer

truthful and false
8 What happens during both sleep and psychosis?

Psychic life halts.

The super-ego battles the id.

The mind contemplates the nature of its own structure.

The ego retreats from the reality of the outside world.
9 What is the psychoanalyst's primary task, according to Freud?

to make the patient feel better

to strengthen the id

to ask the patient to interpret his or her dream

to uncover the dream work and reveal latent content
10 Which ancient Greek philosopher does Freud refer to in his discussion of sleep?

Aristotle

Plato

Heraclitus

Chrysippus
11 In his extended account of the young girl's dream (about her father in a large hall), what does Freud believe the hall symbolizes?

the brain

the anus

intestines

the womb
12 Freud claims that the Medusa’s head of ancient myth symbolizes a certain fear. What is it?

decapitation

abandonment

death

castration
13 What is the name that Freud gives to the “prohibiting agency” of our psyche?

ego

ego-ideal

super-ego

id
14 In his lecture on dreams and occultism, what does Freud imagine someone claiming the earth's core is made from?

molasses

jam

honey

flour
15 What is the abbreviated name Freud uses for the patient with whom he perhaps shared thought-transference?

Senor Sanchez

Madame Fritzl

Herr Frank

Herr P.
16 In the opening of his lecture on the “Dissection of the Psychical Personality”, Freud says that psychoanalysis begins with what aspect of mental life?

the ego

perception

the unconscious

moral conscience
17 What is Freud’s name for the “observing agency” that splits itself off from the ego?

conscience

super-ego

censorship function

ego-ideal
18 Which of the following is one of the three “functions” that Freud assigns to the super-ego?

support

reality principle

conscience

perception
19 According to Freud, which comes first in our psychic development?

sexual instinct

communal instinct

moral instinct

ego-preservation instinct
20 Fill in the blank: The super-ego is heir to the ______ complex.

melancholia

Oedipus

castration

Electra
21 What are the three key regions of the psychic personality, as outlined by Freud?

super-ego, id, perceptual consciousness

perceptual consciousness, ego, id

ego, super-ego, perceptual consciousness

ego, super-ego, id
22 From where do children get their super-egos?

moral conscience

biological necessity

parents

siblings
23 What is found in the id?

language

trauma

symbols

repressed instinctual desires
24 Which German philosopher does Freud critique through his theory of the psychic personality?

Freidrich Nietzsche

Gottfried Leibniz

Immanuel Kant

G.W.F. Hegel
25 What is the role of the perceptual system, or sense-organ of the psychic personality?

to engage the outside world

to weaken the super-ego

to stop the id

to punish the ego

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