Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria Quizzes

1. When a patient unconsciously redirects feeelings held for one person to another person, this process is called...

• sublimation
• displacement
• transference
• reversal of affect

2. Freud believes that dreams are motivated by...

• wish-fulfillment
• unresolved issues from childhood
• pent-up aggression
• psychological trauma

3. Dreams allows for taboo desires, which would normally be repressed to...

• be addressed when a person wakes up
• reach the consciousness
• be resolved
• be satisfied

4. Freud believes that hysterical symptoms are caused by either psychological trauma or ...

• problems in the patient's sexual life
• depression
• extreme frustration
• physical ailments

5. What does Freud find odd about how Dora reacted to Herr K.'s kiss?

• Dora thinks about her father while Herr K. is kissing her
• Dora does not become sexually excited
• Dora does not tell Herr K. to be faithful to his wife
• Dora loses her voice shortly afterward

6. When a situation that is supposed to elicit one reaction causes its opposite, this is called?

• sublimation
• displacement
• dissonance
• reversal of affect

7. Freued guesses that when Herr K. kissed Dora...

• she felt the pressure of his erect penis on her lower body
• she felt trapped in his embrace
• she felt his beard rub against her face
• she felt his tongue enter her mouth

8. Dora believes that her father is pretending to be ill so that ...

• he can avoid his wife
• he can spend time with Frau K.
• he can get more attention from his family
• he can get away from his children

9. According to Freud, what is Dora's criticism of her father concealing?

• Self-criticism for doing the same things of which she accuses her father
• Her sexual attraction towards him
• Her desire to be at the center of attention
• Her sexual attraction towards Frau K.

10. What does Freud believe that Dora's loss of voice is connected to?

• The absence of her father
• Laryngitis
• The absence of Herr K.
• Her fixation with oral sex