With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?

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1. With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?

   A. eugenics
   B. psychoanalysis
   C. phrenology
   D. anarchism

2. According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s module on Freud, Sigmund Freud’s work on transference and trauma argues which of the following points ?

   A. There is an undeniable “tension between the death-instinct and the sexual instincts.”
   B. Repetition-compulsion does not help to come to terms with one’s own mortality.
   C. Most victims of trauma do not exhibit “the compulsion of the human psyche to repeat traumatic events over and over again.”
   D. Talk therapy will not help cure one’s psychological neuroses concerning past trauma.

3. Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways?

   A. Sigmund Freud
   B. Sir James Frazer
   C. Immanuel Kant
   D. all but C

4. Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?

   A. Sigmund Freud
   B. Sir James Frazer
   C. Immanuel Kant
   D. all but C

5. What did Sigmund Freud believe about the unconscious?

   A. a. It contains secret instincts and desires that are repressed.
   B. It is the only significant aspect of the human psyche.
   C. It can never be accessed.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

6. What did Sigmund Freud believe about the unconscious ?

   A. It contains secret instincts and desires that are repressed.
   B. It has little impact on human behavior.
   C. It is the only significant aspect of the human psyche.
   D. It can never be accessed.

7. Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund Freud, psychological “transference” helps to understand the nature of ________________?

   A. Incest
   B. Trauma
   C. Taboo
   D. Love

8. Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife ?

   A. Dante’s Divine Comedy
   B. Boccaccio’s Decameron
   C. The Dream of the Rood
   D. Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women

9. Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife ?

   A. Dante’s Divine Comedy
   B. Boccaccio’s Decameron
   C. The Dream of the Rood
   D. Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women

10. Who authored Il Cortigiano (The Courtier), a book that was highly influential in the English court, providing subtle guidance on self-display ?

    A. Cavalcanti
    B. Castiglione
    C. Pirandello
    D. Boccaccio