How are Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theories distinct from traditional Freudian concepts ?

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1. How are Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theories distinct from traditional Freudian concepts ?

   A. Kristeva rejects the idea that neuroses provide insight into the unconscious.
   B. Kristeva suggests that women are not subject to traditional fetishes.
   C. Kristeva offers a more central place for women’s issues within psychological development.
   D. Kristeva fundamentally disagrees with the idea of the mirror stage.

2. Which of the following human behaviors is important to a Freudian psychoanalytic study of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet ?

   A. Neurotic behavior
   B. Changes in emotional states
   C. Slips of the tongue
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

3. Which of the following human behaviors is important to a Freudian psychoanalytic study of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet ?

   A. Changes in emotional states
   B. Obsessions
   C. Slips of the tongue
   D. All of the above.

4. In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?

   A. Female symbols
   B. Phallic symbols
   C. Male symbols
   D. Evidence of an Oedipus complex

5. The Freudian concept of “the uncanny” refers to_________________?

   A. a feeling of being disconnected from the world.
   B. a sense of something being familiar and foreign at once.
   C. terror at the thought of death.
   D. a realization of one’s empowered position in the world.

6. What fundamental idea does psychoanalytic criticism hold about literary texts ?

   A. Literary texts should not be read as a projection of the author’s psyche.
   B. Literary texts solely reflect an author’s intentions.
   C. Literary texts reveal secret elements of an author’s unconscious.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

7. Psychoanalytic criticism during its earliest stages tended to focus on_____________?

   A. the psychologies of individual authors.
   B. the typographical structures of literary texts.
   C. translation issues.
   D. how children relate to their parents in terms of literary texts.

8. What fundamental idea does psychoanalytic criticism hold about literary texts ?

   A. Literary texts should not be read as a projection of the author’s psyche.
   B. Literary texts solely reflect an author’s intentions.
   C. Literary texts are unlike dreams because they have a system of order and produce meaning.
   D. Literary texts reveal secret elements of an author’s unconscious.

9. How does New Historicism differ from traditional historicism ?

   A. New Historicism rejects the idea that history is neutral.
   B. New Historicism does not make strict delineations between literary and non-literary texts.
   C. New Historicism takes a particular interest in marginalized peoples.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

10. Dante’s nine spheres of heaven are associated with which of the following religious concepts ?

    A. The deadly sins
    B. The steps to confession
    C. The beatitudes
    D. The angelic hierarchy