New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Quizzes

New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Quiz 1

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?
Occultism

Anxiety

Dreams and Dream Theory

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

Group Psychology

psychotherapy

psychoanalysis
4 Why are dreams important to Freud’s theories?
Dreams represent the patient's illness.

Dreams are determined by unconscious, repressed urges.

Dreams predict the future.

Dreams are mystical events of telepathic communication.
5 Name Freud’s term for a dream's capacity to combine disparate elements.
evaporation

alchemy

condensation

displacement
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 show the truth to the dreamer.

Dreams are more real than waking life.
7 Freud divides the content of dreams into two parts. What are they?
latent and manifest

truthful and false

external and internal

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

Psychic life halts.

The ego retreats from the reality of the outside world.

The super-ego battles the id.
9 What is the psychoanalyst's primary task, according to Freud?
to uncover the dream work and reveal latent content

to ask the patient to interpret his or her dream

to make the patient feel better

to strengthen the id
10 Which ancient Greek philosopher does Freud refer to in his discussion of sleep?
Aristotle

Plato

Chrysippus

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?
the womb

the brain

the anus

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

death

abandonment

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

ego

id

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

honey

flour

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

Senor Sanchez

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?
perception

the unconscious

moral conscience

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

ego-ideal

super-ego

censorship function
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

moral instinct

ego-preservation instinct

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

Oedipus

melancholia

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

super-ego, id, perceptual consciousness

perceptual consciousness, ego, id

ego, super-ego, perceptual consciousness
22 From where do children get their super-egos?
moral conscience

siblings

biological necessity

parents
23 What is found in the id?
trauma

language

repressed instinctual desires

symbols
24 Which German philosopher does Freud critique through his theory of the psychic personality?
Gottfried Leibniz

G.W.F. Hegel

Immanuel Kant

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

to engage the outside world

to stop the id

to weaken the super-ego

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