Psychoanalysis: Quotes Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Psychoanalysis? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. According to Freud and Breuer, hysterics suffer mainly from what?
allergies
hallucinations
reminiscences
delusions of grandeur
Q. How did Freud think one could tell when a dream's meaning had been understood fully, once and for all?
The dreamer felt a sense of relief, which signaled that the dream's full meaning had finally been grasped.
After six weeks or at the end of the patient's stay in the psych ward, time was up, and enough was enough.
When the analyst felt that he had exhausted his interpretive resources, and there was nowhere else to go, it was a safe bet that patient and analyst had together definitively interpreted the patient's dream.
One couldn't ever tell, since dreams could generate potentially limitless interpretations, and more meanings were always theoretically possible.
Q. In the epigraph to The Interpretation of Dreams, what did Freud claim to be able to move?
mountains
molehills
the underworld
the heavens
Q. What did Freud think was "the popular view of the sexual instinct" held by his contemporaries?
that the sexual instinct is absent in childhood
that children are the most vulnerable to harm and must be protected
that children are polymorphously perverse
that there was no meaningful difference between children's sexual instincts and those of adults
Q. According to Freud, the First World War brought what state of feeling to those who witnessed it?
dread
relief
Schadenfreude (or enjoyment in the face of another's suffering)
disillusionment