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Civilization and Its Discontents Quiz 1

  • 1. The "oceanic" feeling, according to Freud, can be best characterized in psychoanalytic terms as:
    •     the dissolution of the boundary between the ego and the outside world
    •     the inability to contain one's emotional expressiveness
    •     the fear of suffocation that people experience in the presence of water
    •     the desire of the psyche to plunge into unconscious memories

  • 2. Freud draws an analogy with which of the following branch(es) of science to describe the structure of the mind?
    •     Darwinian theories of evolution
    •     neither of the above
    •     archeology
    •     both of the above

  • 3. In his critique of religion, Freud views God as
    •     an aloof but ultimately benevolent figure of authority
    •     an enormously exalted father figure
    •     the amalgamation of various pagan mythological figures
    •     a mystical, omniscient force in the universe

  • 4. Men exhibit which of the following coping mechanisms to counter suffering?
    •     substitutive satisfactions
    •     planned distractions
    •     intoxicating substances
    •     all of the above

  • 5. Isolation fails to work as a strategy for avoiding suffering because
    •     society stigmatizes misanthropic tendencies
    •     lack of human contact leads to paranoid and neurotic behavior
    •     the reality of the outside world intrudes far too forcefully
    •     men are fundamentally communal beings

  • 6. Freud objects to the commandment "Love thy neighbor" mainly because he
    •     considers man's fundamental instinct to be aggression, not love
    •     is adamantly anti-religion
    •     sees no ethical obligation to love his neighbor more than anyone else
    •     all of the above

  • 7. What does Freud consider to be the most intense source(s) of "unpleasure"?
    •     our relations to other men
    •     our body
    •     the external world
    •     all of the above

  • 8. In discussing man's advances in technology, Freud compares man to
    •     a sleepwalking monster
    •     Hercules
    •     a wolf
    •     a prosthetic God

  • 9. Which factor(s) determine(s) an individual's happiness?
    •     both his own mental constitution and his level of adaptation to the external environment
    •     his submission to religious faith
    •     his own mental constitution
    •     his level of adaptation to the external environment

  • 10. The primary aim(s) of civilization, according to Freud, is/are to:
    •     protect man from the perils of nature
    •     restrain the inclination to aggression
    •     both of the above
    •     none of the above

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