New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Quizzes

New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Quiz 1

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

Paris

London

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

Anxiety

Dreams and Dream Theory

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

Group Psychology

psychotherapy

Individual Psychology
4 Why are dreams important to Freud’s theories?
Dreams predict the future.

Dreams are determined by unconscious, repressed urges.

Dreams are mystical events of telepathic communication.

Dreams represent the patient's illness.
5 Name Freud’s term for a dream's capacity to combine disparate elements.
displacement

alchemy

evaporation

condensation
6 Why does Freud think it is important for psychoanalysts to continue discussing and investigating dreams?
Psychoanalysis still does not know what drives dreams.

Dreams are the only way analysts can learn about a patient’s repressed, unconscious urges.

Dreams are more real than waking life.

Dreams show the truth to the dreamer.
7 Freud divides the content of dreams into two parts. What are they?
inner and outer

truthful and false

external and internal

latent and manifest
8 What happens during both sleep and psychosis?
The mind contemplates the nature of its own structure.

Psychic life halts.

The super-ego battles the id.

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

to make the patient feel better

to uncover the dream work and reveal latent content

to ask the patient to interpret his or her dream
10 Which ancient Greek philosopher does Freud refer to in his discussion of sleep?
Plato

Chrysippus

Aristotle

Heraclitus
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?
intestines

the brain

the womb

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

castration

abandonment

decapitation
13 What is the name that Freud gives to the “prohibiting agency” of our psyche?
super-ego

id

ego-ideal

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

honey

jam

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

Madame Fritzl

Senor Sanchez

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?
perception

the unconscious

the ego

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

conscience

super-ego

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

support

reality principle

conscience
19 According to Freud, which comes first in our psychic development?
sexual instinct

moral instinct

communal instinct

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

Electra

melancholia

Oedipus
21 What are the three key regions of the psychic personality, as outlined by Freud?
super-ego, id, perceptual consciousness

ego, super-ego, id

perceptual consciousness, ego, id

ego, super-ego, perceptual consciousness
22 From where do children get their super-egos?
biological necessity

moral conscience

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?
G.W.F. Hegel

Immanuel Kant

Gottfried Leibniz

Freidrich Nietzsche
25 What is the role of the perceptual system, or sense-organ of the psychic personality?
to weaken the super-ego

to engage the outside world

to punish the ego

to stop the id

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